This patch sets the floor of wireless level (signal) and noise at
-110 dBm, which makes them be comatible with RCPI, as discussed by
Simon Barber. With this change, bcm43xx-softmac and bcm43xx-d80211
behave the same.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This minor patch for wireless-2.6 (softmac) adjusts the parameters of
the wireless statistics to improve the display of programs such as the
"Wireless Network Information" applet of KDE. Thanks to Dan Williams
and Jean Tourrilhes for valuable help in setting up the return of
info in dBm.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch improves the statistics returned from
bcm43xx_get_wireless_stats. The signal level comes from smoothing the
"rssi" value returned by the firmware after it is converted into a
dBm value by the driver. The quality value is a hack derived from the
smoothed level and an assumed RX_POWER_MAX of -10 dBM. The noise value
is still the one calculated from the clean-room formula. On my system,
this is roughly -65 dBm, which seems too high.
The revised version uses the ieee80211 spinlock to protect traversing
of the network list.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As many people don't seem to like the locking "obfuscation"
in the bcm43xx driver, this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The current version of bcm43xx-softmac uses local routines to check
if a channel is valid. As noted in the comments, these routines do
not take any regulatory information into account. This patch converts
the code to use the equivalent routine in ieee80211, which is being
converted to know about regulatory information.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Redesign the bcm43xx locking.
This is pre-work to get a preemptible periodic work handler.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes a crash when
iwconfig ethX mode foo
is done before
ifconfig ethX up
or after
ifconfig ethX down
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The room for the names in bcm43xx_priv_wx_args[] are IFNAMSIZ long and
IFNAMSIZ is defined as 16, so the names in bcm43xx_priv_wx_args should
be 15 characters (16 including the trailing \0). This patch fixes that
for the "set_shortpreambl", "get_shortpreambl", "set_swencryption", and
"get_swencryption" private calls. Patch is against 2.6.17-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is the starting point to make the driver out-of-order-MMIO-stores safe.
There are more mmiowb() needed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wireless Ext update:
update we_version_source
set enc_capa
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Import the bcm43xx driver from the upstream sources here:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-20060123.tar.bz2
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
