[ath9k-devel] Question about ath9k signal strength (AP mode)

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>]

On 2010-07-11 3:37 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Lars Hardy wrote:
>> I have tried with 2 different Atheros chipset in AP mode, the AR5416
>> and AR9280. dd-wrt gives a stronger signal with both chipsets
>> compared with openwrt.
>> 
>> I know the ath9k is under development, so my question is if this is
>> known by the development team and therefor will be worked on?
> 
> I continue to have problems with ath9k and development is slower than
> I first expected since Atheros seems to have very limited focus on
> support, and only for the very latest generation hardware. (I wish
> they made this fact more clear.) Community resources are of course
> also limited, but great improvements have been made to ath9k by
> members of the OpenWRT community and I guess they will continue their
> work.
> 
> Without looking much at the code, but following this list for half a
> year, my gut feeling is that there is still too much major work
> required on ath9k at this point for "fine tuning" such as signal
> strength optimization to come up on the agenda in the near future..
I disagree. The major work has been done and hardware support has mostly
caught up with Atheros' own codebase. What's missing is debugging work
and fine tuning - and other than that, maybe a few things that aren't
very hardware specific.

- Felix