linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: wwguy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Get/set Sensitivity for a radio?
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:24:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5AEF0F.6000701@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5AE56D.6060900@candelatech.com>

On 2011-02-15 9:43 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 02/15/2011 12:28 PM, wwguy wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:27 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I'm having no luck finding where sensitivity is set in
>>> net/mac80211.  Anyone know something to grep for?
>>>
>> I am not sure mac80211 deal with sensitivity if it's what you referring
>> (at least not I am aware of).
>>
>> in iwlwifi, driver and uCode take care of sensitivity calibration.
> 
> I'm messing with ath9k mostly.  Just trying to probe some values
> for reporting as of now.  In the old days, seems you could
> set the sensitivity for madwifi though..could help in some
> cases...
It doesn't make sense to try to add a single 'sensitivity' knob. There
are many different radio parameters that are related to that, some
calibrated, some configured - madwifi never had anything useful for that
either.

- Felix

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-15 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-15 20:27 Get/set Sensitivity for a radio? Ben Greear
2011-02-15 20:28 ` wwguy
2011-02-15 20:43   ` Ben Greear
2011-02-15 21:24     ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2011-02-15 21:50       ` Ben Greear

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4D5AEF0F.6000701@openwrt.org \
    --to=nbd@openwrt.org \
    --cc=greearb@candelatech.com \
    --cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).