--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
@@ -645,8 +645,7 @@ void ath9k_set_hw_capab(struct ath_softc
 	hw->max_rates = 4;
 	hw->channel_change_time = 5000;
 	hw->max_listen_interval = 10;
-	/* Hardware supports 10 but we use 4 */
-	hw->max_rate_tries = 4;
+	hw->max_rate_tries = 10;
 	hw->sta_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_node);
 	hw->vif_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_vif);
 
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
@@ -678,13 +678,13 @@ static void ath_get_rate(void *priv, str
 	 * For Multi Rate Retry we use a different number of
 	 * retry attempt counts. This ends up looking like this:
 	 *
-	 * MRR[0] = 2
-	 * MRR[1] = 2
-	 * MRR[2] = 2
-	 * MRR[3] = 4
+	 * MRR[0] = 4
+	 * MRR[1] = 4
+	 * MRR[2] = 4
+	 * MRR[3] = 8
 	 *
 	 */
-	try_per_rate = sc->hw->max_rate_tries;
+	try_per_rate = 4;
 
 	rate_table = sc->cur_rate_table;
 	rix = ath_rc_get_highest_rix(sc, ath_rc_priv, rate_table, &is_probe);
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ static void ath_get_rate(void *priv, str
 	for ( ; i < 4; i++) {
 		/* Use twice the number of tries for the last MRR segment. */
 		if (i + 1 == 4)
-			try_per_rate = 4;
+			try_per_rate = 8;
 
 		ath_rc_get_lower_rix(rate_table, ath_rc_priv, rix, &nrix);
 		/* All other rates in the series have RTS enabled */