On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Larry Finger wrote: > Guys, > > Tonight I was looking at the output from TXpower debug as I moved my computer > away from the AP, and > began to wonder why the "desired power" was not changing as I did so. After > dumping the portion of > shared memory used in the calculation, I found that addresses 0x0058, 0x005A, > 0x0070 and 0x0072 > always contain 0x7F7F, which is supposed to be the indication that no > transmissions have been sent. > Somewhere we seem to have missed a signal to the firmware to update these > TSSI values, and the > desired power never changes. Suddenly, the low power and the lack of > adaptability with distance are > no longer a mystery.
No, the desired power, is the power value we get from mac80211. So it hardly changes. The value from the SHM is the estimated current output power. And it correctly estimates it for me on the 4306. However it does not seem to work on the 4318. It always returns 20db there, which is bogus. I _think_ that on the 4318 the value is generated by one of the new lookup tables. So I think there's a bug in the lookup tables that are written for hwpctl devices. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
