On Monday 23 February 2009 12:15:54 Michael Buesch wrote: > On Monday 23 February 2009 03:40:01 John Mountcastle wrote: > > mtcs...@sybill:~/Desktop> sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"MBR-6d2" > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: > > 00:30:44:02:76:D2 > > Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm > > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B > > Encryption key:7761-7465-7266-616C-6C30-3030-30 Security > > mode:open > > Power Management:off > > Link Quality=51/100 Signal level:-5 dBm Noise level=-17 dBm > > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > > > Note that while b43-phy0 debug says desired output is 15.0dBm, iwconfig > > says it's askigng for 27. > > Right, that's what I suspected. > > Can you try wireless-compat? It prints additional debugging info for this. > compat is easy to install, usually. Just download it and do make; make > install in the > extracted source tree. You don't need to change your kernel for this. You can > run it > on a standard distribution kernel, usually. >
I made a patch which fixes up a possible PROM screwup: http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20090223-1324/patches/018-b43-txpwr-sprom-fixes.patch You can apply that to compat-wireless: cd compat-wireless-2009-02-XX patch -p1 < 018-b43-txpwr-sprom-fixes.patch -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
