On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Paul Donohue wrote: > > The WiMAX LED on my laptop doesn't do anything with either the 1.3.0 or > > 1.4.0 drivers. Is it supposed to be working? It would be nice to have > > an indication as to whether or not I'm still connected. And is there any > > /proc interface to get WiMAX signal strength (similar to > > /proc/net/wireless for 802.11)? It would be nice to have a signal > > strength meter for WiMAX as well, and since it appears that most 802.11 > > signal strength applets use /proc/net/wireless to obtain their > > statistics, it would likely be easiest if a /proc interface were > > available for WiMAX so existing 802.11 signal strength applets could be > > easily adapted for WiMAX. > > I've run into another problem now that I've been using the 1.4 driver a > couple weeks.
I'll let Jayant handle this one, as he knows more about that part. > I've also noticed that roaming is rather slow. It typically takes atleast > 10 seconds, and sometimes takes much longer, to reconnect when I move out > of range of one tower and into the range of another tower (I've been using > WiMAX on the train during my commute, and I'm constantly having to wait for > it to reconnect as I roam from tower to tower). I saw one Xohm demo where > they were touting seamless roaming as a feature of the system ... is there > some feature that needs to be added to the driver to allow seamless > roaming, or is the driver just supposed to be able to reconnect much faster > than it is currently reconnecting? This looks like a driver/user space daemon problem. I saw something similar yesterday while driving from the office to home and connected to the clear network. I guess the handover is not working as fast as it should. Can you please file a bug in the linuxwimax.org bugzilla about it? Thank you, -- Inaky _______________________________________________ wimax mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax
