[Madwifi-devel] Re : [Madwifi-users] reserved HAL

[shadowcaster <sha...@al...>]

Hi,
There is a conversation about the open HAL and you afraid about increasing the
trasmit power and such wich will bring problems. I am a member of a open
outdoors network that has more tha 300 active nodes. Atheros based cards have
great sensitivity and a very good driver BUT if you use them with a good
antena (24db pacific wireless) that is required for a outdoors link about 1km
- 3km and more then your trasmit power is about 44 db - the loss from cables
and connectors. The legit txpower for outdoors in my country is 20 db. So the
closed source hal for as makes this cards useless until a driver that give us
the option to lower the trasmit power is released. You see there are other
that want to lower their trasmit power rather than increase it.

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