Re: link quality not implemented?

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 19:49 +0200, Joerg Albert wrote: 
> Hi Ricardo,
> 
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I finally managed to get my WUSB11 v2.6 to work with Fedora Rawhide,
> > but I noticed that the driver is not reporting link quality, only link
> > level. This is not implemented, right? I mean, after a quick look
> > through the code, it seems that the quality is never assigned.
> 
> It is assigned in the driver, see at76c503.c, version 1.67, line 3269:
> 
>                                 wstats->qual.qual    = buf->link_quality;
>                                 wstats->qual.level   = lev_dbm;
>                                 wstats->qual.noise   = buf->noise_level;
>                                 wstats->qual.updated = 7;
> 
> Unfortunately only the firmware for the (no longer sold, AFAIK) devices
> with Intersil radios report the link quality. The RFMD devices report RSSI
> only (uncalibrated :-(.
> 
> So this is a problem in the (binary only) firmware and/or of the radio
> chipset.
> 
> /Jörg

Ok, what I meant was that buf->link_quality was not assigned any value,
anyway, now I understand. Thanks for the info.

-- 
Ricardo Veguilla <[email protected]>