[CUWiN-Dev] Transmit power control / RSS measurement

[David Young]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:18:00AM +0200, Sven-Ola Tuecke wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> the majority of embedded devices in our mesh is running Broadcom wifi
> (bcm4306 radio mostly wrt54g boxes). They run fine. But the backbone
> hardware (that based on 4G-meshcubes, mips + 2*MiniPCI) has mostly PrismII.
> We are looking for a good alternative for them:
> 
> PrismII: Lots of Station Firmwares versions, causes BSSID splits
>  with most of them. Others do not run reliable or cause a lot of
>  probs with chaotic txpwr setting.
> 
> Prism54: Not reliable (Hardmac). Hard to buy. Slow on long links
>  and no distance setting for ACK-Timing changes.
> 
> BCM: No driver (no source, broadcom-silicon-backplane deps)
>  OpenSource driver really not production quality in the moment.
> 
> Atheros+OldMadwifi: With our BSSID change included with one of
>  the BSD devels on What-the-hack 2005 it is running OK. But the
>  old MadWifi causes kernel freezes on weekly basis. Cube maintainer
>  is tired of climbing the stairs up and the Cubes do not have a hardware
>  watchdog.

Maybe you can build a serial watchdog for the Cubes using these plans?
http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/Archives/lf-2002_07-0239.pdf

I cannot recommend any radio more highly than the Atheros.

Dave

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