On Nov 24, 2007 9:08 PM, Nick Kossifidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was searching the net on stuff about 23** chips and i found the > following post... > http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r19399723-Merakiisnt-that-special > > That shows a full dump of the information found in eeprom (i guess > that tool is part of athero's suite, well we can always make ath_info > do the same ;-) ). After i found this post i tried to find similar > dumps from other chipsets and i got this one... > > http://www.oswave.com/mediawiki/index.php/Eeprom_output > > So here's what we got: > > a) We need to get per channel calibration and power information from > eeprom so we can be a step closer on fixing tx power support (at least > now we know what the values should look like so it won't be that > difficult, we also have the offsets etc, we just got to fill the > missing bits in eeprom_init). > > b) We need to find out how these values are used (what we know so far > is that they are used to modify RF Buffer -that's something totally > obscure for now, we know nothing about rf buffer, what we have is from > regdumps-). Here are some infos that might help (after searching on > the net): > > XLNA = eXternal Low Noise Amplifier > XPA = eXternal Pre Amplifier > OB = Octave Band > X Gain = Cross Gain (?) > XPD = Cross Polarization Discrimination > PGA = Programmable Gain Amplifier > > Also i found a nice patent from Atheros about 5111/2111 here -> > http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2003092997&IA=WO2003092997&DISPLAY=DESC > > I haven't read it all but seems informative ;-)
Excellent find Nick :) I'll try to look into some of these values. Luis _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
