[Acx100-devel] [ acx100-Bugs-877704 ] Antenna settings problematic (was: DWL-520+ antenna 0x99 ok)

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Bugs item #877704, was opened at 2004-01-15 18:41
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Status: Open
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>Priority: 6
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: Antenna settings problematic (was: DWL-520+ antenna 0x99 ok)

Initial Comment:
hi,

i installed the driver version 0x02pre6 on redhat 9.0,
standard kernel (modified for pentium I).

I've had a really crappy long distance connection with
lots of reconnects and 3/4 of all packages getting
lost. Then I changed my antenna settings via iwpriv to
0x99(153) and it works fine with 11 Mbit  !

I mean...that's great, but can anyone tell me why this
happens?

thx

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>Comment By: Andreas Mohr (andim2)
Date: 2004-01-15 19:02

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Uh oh.

Sounds like some cards don't like our preinitialized antenna
value
(we use 0x8f), since they seem to have a different antenna
setup than "usual" cards...

Try removing
        wlandev->antenna = 0x8f;
        wlandev->set_mask |= GETSET_ANTENNA;
in src/acx100_helper.c
and report whether that fixes it.
In this case we probably shouldn't force our own antenna
setting upon cards at all.

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