Re: Help on feedback of transmitted packets
Harald Schiöberg <harald <at> net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
2008-07-04 08:02:28 GMT
aka aka wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am using latest version of click (user level ) with madwifi drivers
> (0.9.4) on wireless nodes running Ubuntu linux (2.6.22-14). I have setup a
> very simple testbed of three wireless nodes which are communicating in
> "adhoc" mode in 802.11b. On one wireless node, I want to record statistics
> of transmitted packets: retried, acked, or dropped. After going through
> click and madiwifi documentation (including madwifi stripped) and related
> mailing lists, I had written several variation of click script files to get
> the feedback about transmitted packets. However, I have not been
> successful. I have gone through lot of documentation before posting the
> question.
>
> I also wanted to use old madwifi drivers (stripped) as given on the "
> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~jbicket/madwifi.stripped/". However, the "README"
> file in the driver directory asks to patch the linux kernel before compiling
> the driver. As i could not find the required patch for the kernel
> (2.6.22-14) i am running, i could not try it, and have been using userlevel
> click.
the stripped driver is not needed anymore, as madwifi "monitor"
virtual-interfaces do the same thing.
set up your device using "wlanconfig ... wlanmode monitor ..."
you also want to run
echo '804' > /proc/sys/net/ath0/dev_type
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