From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:47:09 +0200 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Question about ath9k signal strength (AP mode) In-Reply-To: <20100711013717.18416.qmail@stuge.se> References: <4C389BD6.9080703@gmail.com> <20100711013717.18416.qmail@stuge.se> Message-ID: <4C39229D.9050701@openwrt.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.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