From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Hamlet <h@mlet.me>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] rtl8187: Improve wireless statistics for RTL8187
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:23:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D7A599.5070306@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090404T180348-423@post.gmane.org>
Hamlet wrote:
> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...> writes:
>
>> Is it possible for you to send me the quality and signal strength that you
>> obtain for the RTL8187 at distances of a few cm, 3m and 10m from the AP? Please
>> include which algorithm was used in the conversion.
>
> Hello.
> I really new to that, but I would be glad to help !
> I had big troubles with vanilla kernel drivers, but that's not news.
> I'm currently compiling compat-wireless-2009-04-04 and I hope results will be
> better.
>
> My device :
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless
> Adapter
>
> It's on a laptop so I can do every kind of test you can imagine ! ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Hamlet
>
> PS. Please reply to my address since I'm not on the mailing-list...
> Tell me if you think I should !
Since I requested that data, I got my own RTL8187L and filled in the data.
Compat-wireless has the latest version of the driver. In addition, the latest
version of mac80211 no longer needs that information, and calculates its own
signal strength and link quality.
The only test that you need to do is check that the rate is automatically
adjusted up from 1 Mb/s. Some flavors of RTL8187L's seem to have a problem in
setting the rate. Mine does not.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-04 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 4:21 [PATCH V2] rtl8187: Improve wireless statistics for RTL8187 Larry Finger
2008-12-04 12:44 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-12-04 12:57 ` Christian Lamparter
2008-12-04 13:14 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-12-04 14:06 ` Larry Finger
2008-12-04 14:44 ` Stefanik Gábor
2009-04-04 18:10 ` Hamlet
2009-04-04 18:23 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2008-12-04 18:49 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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