From: Alex Hacker <hacker@epn.ru>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] Possible over driving AR9106, how to detect?
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:09:32 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908120932.GA16405@infinet.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADGLRPn8ttmnGQGXSyT3FbpkEY6H97Y0Bn5rfDeW6_e1Lih8Ag@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 07:42:19AM -0400, Daniel Smith wrote:
> For us we can reliably recreate it when we have high gain reception
> (70+ dB) combined with a high incoming frame rate. I am wondering if
> (and the reason for the post) the RF front-end is being over driven.
> Therefore not a bug that can be fixed in software but just a
> limitation of the hardware that needs to be acknowledged and dealt
> with appropriately.
Not sure about AR9106 but for AR9160 or AR92xx chips the RSSI of 70dB (it
should be around -25dBm at antenna input) is not suffcient to overdrive radio.
Such signal levels or more is very common in our lab tests without any issues.
Regards,
Alex.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-07 14:59 [ath9k-devel] Possible over driving AR9106, how to detect? Daniel Smith
2011-09-07 15:47 ` Adrian Chadd
2011-09-07 18:04 ` Daniel Smith
2011-09-08 0:37 ` Adrian Chadd
2011-09-08 11:42 ` Daniel Smith
2011-09-08 12:01 ` Adrian Chadd
2011-09-08 12:09 ` Alex Hacker [this message]
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