Gmane
From: David Murray <30179198 <at> student.murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: Re: How to disable sending of MAC level ACKs?
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.devel
Date: 2008-07-24 18:13:26 GMT (24 weeks, 1 day, 3 hours and 4 minutes ago)
Hi,

I just wanted to confirm that Lrj's method to disable layer 2 ACKs works 
well.

Many thanks to Lrj and Stevie for their help. For anyone else interested 
in doing this, the instructions are below

Cheers
Dave

>     In if_ath.c
>
>         First, in the ath_attach(), add the codes "OS_REG_WRITE(ah,
>         0x8048, 0x00000002);", which writes register to disable the
>         hardware auto ACK;
>         And in the ath_reset(), do the same thing.
>
>
>         Then, in the ath_tx_start(), before the call of
>         ath_hal_setuptxdesc(), add the codes "flags |=
>         HAL_TXDESC_NOACK;", which sets the flags to stop the hw ACK
>         waiting.
>             Done.
>

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