On Monday 12 May 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-05-12, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A curiosity: by itself, the Hawking USB adapter has more or > >> less sensitivity than the simple Airport glued to my Macbook > >> motherboard? > > > > I think it depends a lot on the maturity of the drivers. As I > > said, my Netgear PCI card uses the madwifi drivers and vastly > > outperforms the Hawking adapter. > > What do you mean by "outperform"? I can see how drivers can > affect throughput. The Windows drivers for my Laptop's WiFi > chipset (Intel Pro-something) only get about 1/4 of the > bandwidth that the Linux drivers do. > > But, I don't understand how the driver can affect receiver > sensitivity. That's purely a function of the design of the RF > frontend.
As modified by the firmware in the device. OK, it's not the driver per se, but it's certainly not the hardware either -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
