On Wednesday 01 August 2007 20:40:59 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > 
> > That's a known bug and I am currently trying to find out why it
> > fails to tune the power to higher levels.
> > Even adjusting power manually doesn't have any effect. So it's not
> > a bug in the power scaling algorithm, but deeper in the attenuation 
> > adjustment.
> > Might be some broken table upload.
> > 
> 
> It is something in the PHY initialization. I don't get sparking performance 
> with a 4318 using the 
> new port from softmac to mac80211, but I do get usable performance of at 
> least 5 Mbs for all rates, 
> even at 15-20 m from the AP. One thing is that the signal level from iwconfig 
> is very low at -61 
> dBm; whereas, the 4311 gives -37 at the same position relative to the AP. The 
> noise values are both 
> -72 dBm.

Sure, you are absolutely right. If I define has_hardware_pctl() to
always be 0, I get better performance. So we somewhere blow up
the hwpctl init. I'm debugging this at the moment.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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