Re: [Acx100-devel] acx sensitivity

[Andreas M. <an...@us...>]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For a few people who reported acx to have far less sensitivity
> than windows drivers - a really stupid question, but did you
> try to set sensitivity?
> 
> iwconfig wlan0 sens 3
> 
> is a max. You should get "updating sensitivity value: N"
> in your kernel log (if debug flag value is at the default).
> 
> Currently sens defaults to 1. Should I change the default?
Hmm, from your question I'm not sure whether you actually looked at
what the ACX111-specific code is doing here ;-)

Setting 1 is normal operation and thus *should* be the default by all
means as far as I'm concerned.
2 is something like low level reception, thus something most likely
not active by default in the Windows driver.
3 will activate yet another flag for extremely low level signal reception,
something even less likely to be the default in the Windows driver.

However if someone can tell for sure that some specific setting (2, 3?)
makes the Linux driver *exactly* match Windows driver behaviour
when it comes to *receiving* side sensitivity, then we should most likely
make that setting the default.

Andreas (currently without DSL (WLAN!) connection again, unfortunately)