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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:07:11 +0100
From: Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposal enquiry for Wireless Roaming feature enhancement
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Holger Schurig wrote:
>> Can you tell anything about the configuration parameters
>> available? For example, can the driver configure an rssi
>> threshold for enabling background scanning[1]?
> 
> Orinoco and WLAGS Hermes1 and Hermes2 has some "sensitivy" 
> setting, from 1..3:
> 
> $ iwconfig eth1 sens 3
> 
> What exactly this does is a bit opaque and handled by the 
> firmware.

I wasn't paying too much attention to this thread. However as part of a
separate thread* I had a look into orinoco's sensitivity setting.

Anyway, see my e-mail earlier today for a description of what the values
do. The description should be valid for Intersil and Agere firmware
(including most if not all old versions), and applies to orinoco and
WL_LKM drivers.


Regards,

Dave.

* the thread is titled "[RFC 00/11] cfg80211: connect API + wireless
extension move"