> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de > Subject: RE: [PATCH RFT V2] b43legacy: Fix TX power adjustments > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:14:05 -0400 > > >> 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
Just noticed a few warnings in the output of dmesg. All were: b43legacy-phy0 warning: Unexpected value for chanstat (0x7C00) 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
