On Jun 25, 2008, at 08:35 AM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Wednesday 25 June 2008 13:51:54 Dale Walsh wrote:The problem with your statement is that as far as I could locate, this is the only tool that allows you to modify the subsystem vend/prod ID's and to tweak antenna gains to improve performance of a card.You should read a good book about antenna physics.
I can assure you I know something about antenna design, gain and wavelength versus overall length, loading, termination, resistance, balancing, corona, directional versus omni-directional, resonance, multi-elements, arrays, yagi's, quad's and the antenna is only as good as the transmitter or receiver attached to it.
If the transmitter power is supplied at 70% of the available power then the distance that the transmitter is effective is diminished exponentially by the amount of power being generated.
If the receiver has the gain reduced then the S/N ratio and the signal level decrease logarithmically so turning it up has merit provided that the noise level does saturate the input signal because in most front-ends is some kind of circuitry that attempts to compress the incoming signal to prevent saturation and to continue to increase gain beyond this point only increases the noise level until it's saturation occurs and then the noise is just as loud as the signal.
I know what I want as an end result, the lack of available software for my OS has had me go outside to another OS to find a solution which appears to be b43.ko, ssb-sprom and ssb.ko. I can buy card-A from my OS vendor, he charges $100.00 for the card, BestBuy sells the same card using the same chipset but the gain is lower and the ID's are different and the cost if $21.00, it makes economical sense to purchase the $21.00 card, change the ID's and tweak the gain if 3 cards are required per system and the time to modify 3 cards is less than 15 minutes.... You will understand, that I am not going to support somebody whotakes my GPL'ed software and uses it for a proprietary in-house solution.Of course, this is perfectly legal what you are doing, as long as you don't redistribute the software outside of your local office. But please do not expect any support from me unless you release your work under the GNU/GPL version 2.Helping you with your proprietary in-house solution would be a completewaste of my limited time.
First, I am not asking you to support any solution I generate for myself, I have not asked anyone to develop any software on my behalf, all I expect is that you support your software in the OS it was intended and this is currently where I am using it out of respect for you and your efforts.
Second, currently it's broken, I've offered some quick fixes to get the rev 2 sprom support functional again by using the same principals currently employed in the source.
Third, I respect your license, there is no need for you to discuss the terms or the inner-working of the license with me unless I have questions about it which I currently do not.
This is not BSD licensed. For good reasons, as we can see.
Your software in general is not supported by my OS, some of the utilities have been ported and these have been useful in achieving a solution in my OS but please do not mistake my coming to you with problems in your software as an attempt for you to code a solution for my OS.
If there was a fully functional easy to use solution in your OS I would have no problem doing my work in it, I also expect a little respect for my preference of OS and the environment I chose to work in, I do not force it upon anyone and I am not asking you to support it.
-- Greetings Michael.
-- Dale
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