Re: Survey: What are you using MadWifi for, and why?

Mike,

1. What are you using MadWifi for?

I've customized Madwifi extensively to be used as a standard firmware in our
copany. It is primarily used in WDS point-to-point and point-to-multipoint
mode in a WISP setup. In our network, Atheros AR5212 are primarily used for
5 GHz backhaul links and 2.4 GHz distribution nodes.

2. Did you already evaluate ath5k/ath9k? If no, why not?

Kind of, I looked at the feature set it supports and it doesn't quite have
all that is needed in our network. Apart from that, it'll require a lot
customization and testing to get to the point where we can consider
deploying it. At this time I don't really see the need to switch from the
customized Madwifi to ath5k/ath9k as it simply doesn't offer any significant
advantages worth the time and effort to get it running stable in our
network.

3. In case you evaluated ath5k/ath9k but did not yet switch: what is the
reason for your decision, and what is required before you could switch?

N/A


Regards, Hasan R.
Digital Path, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Renzmann [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [Madwifi-devel] Survey: What are you using MadWifi for, and why?

Hi all.

As you might have noticed, there currently is a discussion [1] going on
about the future directions of the MadWifi project, including a decision
how to deal with MadWifi driver. It turns out that there are pretty
contrary positions in this regard: some would like to see MadWifi being
dumped completely as soon as possible, others would prefer to continue
development and even implement new features.

What do others think? It appears to me that we know too little about what
MadWifi is actually used for today and why. Thus I'd like to start a quick
survey.

It would be great if you could answer some or - ideally - all of the
following questions:

 1. What are you using MadWifi for?

 2. Did you already evaluate ath5k/ath9k? If no, why not?

 3. In case you evaluated ath5k/ath9k but did not yet switch: what is the
reason for your decision, and what is required before you could switch?

Any input is highly welcome, thanks in advance for your time.

Bye, Mike

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.project/165


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