Re: Get/set Sensitivity for a radio?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 02/15/2011 01:24 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks.

If you happen to know some of the related tunables, I'd like
to take a look at them, at least.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> - Felix


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