> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:25:00 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PATCH RFT V2] b43legacy: Fix TX power adjustments > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The calculation of TX power has recently been improved in b43. > This patch implements those improvements in b43legacy. > > With this patch, the estimated power out calculation becomes > quite stable. After the initial settling, the estimate varies by > 0.25 dBm, or less. > > This patch is meant to apply to the wireless-testing tree. To > apply to -stable, or the 2.6.25-rcX code, delete the hunk that changes > drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c, as it will not apply to those > trees. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger
>From what I can tell this patch is working great on my 4306 rev2 card. The network I'm on doesn't use encryption, but I've noticed that while using wpa_supplicant 0.6.3 dhclient reports the interface as being down after wpa_supplicant has already associated and fails to obtain an IP address. Without wpa_supplicant, the card associates and dhclient works well. From the output of iwconfig it appears that my rate is capped at 1M. This is lower than the 5.5Mb/s and sometimes 2Mb/s rates I was receiving under Windows at the same distance from the AP, but the connection seems much more stable. iwlist shows the signal level bouncing between -55dbm and -63dbm, with link qualities between 61 to 68 and a constant noise level of -66dbm. I will try to do some additional testing with a WEP encrypted network later this week. Regards, David Ellingsworth _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up–use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. Learn how. hthttp://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_packup_042008 _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
