Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:60855 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755325Ab1BOVup (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:50:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4D5AF52F.1010208@candelatech.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:50:39 -0800 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felix Fietkau CC: wwguy , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Get/set Sensitivity for a radio? References: <4D5AE1B5.8010302@candelatech.com> <1297801737.4723.25.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> <4D5AE56D.6060900@candelatech.com> <4D5AEF0F.6000701@openwrt.org> In-Reply-To: <4D5AEF0F.6000701@openwrt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/15/2011 01:24 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2011-02-15 9:43 PM, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 02/15/2011 12:28 PM, wwguy wrote: >>> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:27 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> I'm having no luck finding where sensitivity is set in >>>> net/mac80211. Anyone know something to grep for? >>>> >>> I am not sure mac80211 deal with sensitivity if it's what you referring >>> (at least not I am aware of). >>> >>> in iwlwifi, driver and uCode take care of sensitivity calibration. >> >> I'm messing with ath9k mostly. Just trying to probe some values >> for reporting as of now. In the old days, seems you could >> set the sensitivity for madwifi though..could help in some >> cases... > It doesn't make sense to try to add a single 'sensitivity' knob. There > are many different radio parameters that are related to that, some > calibrated, some configured - madwifi never had anything useful for that > either. Ok, thanks. If you happen to know some of the related tunables, I'd like to take a look at them, at least. Thanks, Ben > > - Felix -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com