On 2010-07-11 3:37 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Lars Hardy wrote: >> I have tried with 2 different Atheros chipset in AP mode, the AR5416 >> and AR9280. dd-wrt gives a stronger signal with both chipsets >> compared with openwrt. >> >> I know the ath9k is under development, so my question is if this is >> known by the development team and therefor will be worked on? > > I continue to have problems with ath9k and development is slower than > I first expected since Atheros seems to have very limited focus on > support, and only for the very latest generation hardware. (I wish > they made this fact more clear.) Community resources are of course > also limited, but great improvements have been made to ath9k by > members of the OpenWRT community and I guess they will continue their > work. > > Without looking much at the code, but following this list for half a > year, my gut feeling is that there is still too much major work > required on ath9k at this point for "fine tuning" such as signal > strength optimization to come up on the agenda in the near future.. I disagree. The major work has been done and hardware support has mostly caught up with Atheros' own codebase. What's missing is debugging work and fine tuning - and other than that, maybe a few things that aren't very hardware specific.
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