Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:35042 "EHLO fmmailgate02.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753788AbYLDM47 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 07:56:59 -0500 From: Christian Lamparter To: "Stefanik =?iso-8859-1?q?G=E1bor?=" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] rtl8187: Improve wireless statistics for RTL8187 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:57:00 +0100 Cc: "Larry Finger" , "John W Linville" , "Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski" , "Hin-Tak Leung" , barreyromartin@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <49375ac0.z1uZDBLv3IxmmMgD%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <69e28c910812040444l5d76632ah288078bd3db172d4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <69e28c910812040444l5d76632ah288078bd3db172d4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <200812041357.00103.chunkeey@web.de> (sfid-20081204_135706_164632_A312A0C7) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 04 December 2008 13:44:09 Stefanik G=E1bor wrote: > BTW using RTL8187B's scaling constants for RTL8187L also work well > with this patch - I get almost identical readings from my BCM4318 and > my RTL8187L. (I haven't yet submitted my version of the patch because > it's pretty messy, with #if 0'd code and such.) I wonder whether b43 > or p54usb is more correct... However, it looks like the same algorith= m > is applicable for both RTL8187 variants. >=20 probably b43. p54usb uses static scaling constants to calculate signal & noise dbm, instead of finding the correct values from the devi= ce eeprom (Note: Link Quality doesn't substract the noise so it could be off even= more). However, in my testing it was only a few +/- dbm(s), what's your readin= g? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html