Yes transmit power is not an issue. I will to tests with CM9 again and post the infos.
Beat On 10/30/2013 07:08 PM, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > On 10/30/2013 06:54 PM, Beat Meier wrote: >> Hello >> >> I have a lot of wireless repeaters which uses madwifi. Because of >> several problem like not anymore supported and >> other problems like "no xmit buf" I need to upgrade to mac80211 with ath5k. >> What I notice is that in the b band the ath5k driver has about 10dbm >> less than madwifi driver and a band too. >> It's not the noise it have really 10db difference. Nobody having this >> problem with long distance links? >> This is with Compex cards, CM9 ... >> Because of this I have bad througput (signal of -80) instead of -70 with >> madwifi and good througput. >> >> Any ideas what could be wrong and how to debug the issue??? >> >> Greetings >> _______________________________________________ >> ath5k-devel mailing list >> ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org >> https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel > Are you sure you are allowed to transmit at that power level ? > ath5k/mac80211 use crda and the wireless regulatory db to determine the > maximum allowed transmission power. Start by verifying the allowed power > limits by the driver (you should see a list on dmesg or with iw) and > then if it's not related we can see if it's a driver bug. From my tests > CM9s work fine with ath5k. > _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
