From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:59148 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778AbXHGJuQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 05:50:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] bcm43xx-mac80211: Hack to turn automatic pctl off From: Johannes Berg To: Larry Finger Cc: Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de In-Reply-To: <46B7F9AC.10706@lwfinger.net> References: <46b792a0.FdNEyH1qMrUgo6oh%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200708062335.48546.mb@bu3sch.de> <200708062356.58782.mb@bu3sch.de> <46B7F9AC.10706@lwfinger.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ddJ0tQLd016M8XDh9iAg" Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:51:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1186480308.4067.33.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-ddJ0tQLd016M8XDh9iAg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:48 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > >=20 > > That's it > > http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-dev/20070806-1186437386/patches/bcm43= xx-mac80211-hwpctl-optional.patch > >=20 >=20 > This patch makes my BCM4311 positively hum even with the power set at the= default 18.5 dBm. I get=20 > the same performance as was seen using the PHY code ported from softmac. = Congratulations - you found=20 > the secret. Of course, the system will probably be even better when hardw= are power control is=20 > working, but we can now afford to wait until the reverse engineers have t= ime. Cool stuff! johannes --=-ddJ0tQLd016M8XDh9iAg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGuEC0/ETPhpq3jKURAk9zAKCdrZ0sdtV5xmIE4TlcpBXFihzfXwCfcKVe tL42LINm30ktsnHwNf/CM/o= =+eCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ddJ0tQLd016M8XDh9iAg--