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From: Alex Hacker <hacker@epn.ru>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:09:32 +0600
Subject: [ath9k-devel] Possible over driving AR9106, how to detect?
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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.