Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f180.google.com ([209.85.223.180]:54632 "EHLO mail-iw0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752967AbZJ0DOm (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:14:42 -0400 Received: by iwn10 with SMTP id 10so6422457iwn.4 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:14:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200910270508.29029.denys@visp.net.lb> References: <200910270259.09787.denys@visp.net.lb> <200910270410.24274.denys@visp.net.lb> <43e72e890910261959s6490b900xebb365d288c03f@mail.gmail.com> <200910270508.29029.denys@visp.net.lb> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:14:27 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890910262014y77ef048do965a76ab423c2db6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: ath5k, too high output power? To: Denys Fedoryschenko Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Denys Fedoryschenko wrote: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 04:59:20 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> You mean can you do antenna diversity and select this manually ? I am >> not sure, but I doubt it, should be easy to add though. > > Yes, on some laptops wireless card connected really weird way. And while on > Windows everything worked fine, on Linux signal was too weak, and some people > thinking it is driver issue. > I had this issue with madwifi before, and choosing antenna manually helped. > But it was long time ago, no idea if it's useful now in ath5k. But in custom > boards like Routerboard it is very useful. ath5k and madwifi are very different. Luis