Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 15:17:34 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Signal sensitivity problem with if_rum Message-ID: <3a142e750905020617y40f62463ma91b46a015b2b2ab@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49FBF9B5.40800@entel.upc.edu> References: <49FA2E3F.9050108@entel.upc.edu> <3a142e750905010655i5e56282eu240e13f2a03dfb02@mail.gmail.com> <49FB55A3.605@entel.upc.edu> <3a142e750905011716g39ea55f0kd081bfdd55709b37@mail.gmail.com> <49FBF9B5.40800@entel.upc.edu>
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On 5/2/09, Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu> wrote: > >>> Any idea if is there anything to change/tune ? >>> >> >> There is not just bbp17 to tune there are probably others much more >> important >> registers. >> >> But as I already mentioned that code is completly missing. >> >> > I was not talking about autotuning features, which are missing as you > pointed. Was talking > just about changing/tuning values of some registers to increase > reception sensitivity. > > The people of linux, seem to have increased the sensitivity by > modifing bbp17 and disabling > autotuning. I tried with bbp17 and for the autotuning disabled, well, we > already have it > implemented :) (just joking) Anyway, giving that I didn't get an > increase of sensitivity, I think we'll > need the help of the developers. > > Well, this morning will try to increase sensitivity of those usb rum > with a linux system, just to check > what they say here : That information is misleading, I remmember reading somewhere that linux rt73 had similar problems like rum but it got fixed, and is not present in new kernels. I think that problem originated for linux from now obsolete drivers. On what linux version and what drivers version do you experience similar problems with signal sensitivity like with rum? -- Paul
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