1. In a wireless communication system having a plurality of receive antennas, each coupled to a rake receiver, and a combiner for combining signals from rake fingers of each rake receiver, a method for determining combiner weights applied in the combiner, comprising: receiving a frame comprising a samples of a first type of symbols and samples of a second type of symbols; determining combiner weights using the samples of the first type of symbols using an adaptive algorithm; and processing the samples of the second type of symbols using the combiner weights.