From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 31 23:12:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D797416A4CE; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:12:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5908043D1F; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:12:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6VNC2hm002578; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:12:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:12:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20040731.171229.29785775.imp@bsdimp.com> To: lesha@intercaf.ru From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <51001.192.169.41.44.1091266090.squirrel@webmail.intercaf.ru> References: <51001.192.169.41.44.1091266090.squirrel@webmail.intercaf.ru> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proxim WiFi cards anyone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:12:20 -0000 In message: <51001.192.169.41.44.1091266090.squirrel@webmail.intercaf.ru> lesha@intercaf.ru writes: : Hello, all! : : : Today I have bought myself new Proxim Orinoco Gold b/g card : to replace my old Lucent Orinoco b one. : : New card is working fine with the ath driver, but... : Signal strength and radio perfomance are very nasty. : : Where my old card gave me signal strength of 106 : new one gives only 51. (that is 5m away from AP) : (same AP, same channels, same everything) : : It is not working even in next room to the AP. : : What can be the problem, or just Proxim got lame engineers? Lame antenna. Also, the signal strength, as reported by FreeBSD, can be radically different when the RF levels are exactly the same. Different firmware has different formulas to convert the values that are reported. Also, different antennas have different gains. Warner