[driverloader] Bad Link quality with bcm43xx on HP ZD7000 serie

[Marc Boucher]

> Thank's for your response but near or far (1m to 10m) the result is 
> the same.
> Bad link Quality.
> Speed mesured with a file transfer is aproximatively 1,5Mo/Sec.
> For my Internet access it's good but for PC to PC it's a little bit 
> short.
> I've try with official and non official HP driver (broadcom), the 
> result is
> always the same.
> Perhaps in the futur a new driverloader or windows broadcom driver 
> will solve
> this problem

How is the actual network throughput? If it is fine, then actual link 
quality is probably good, and the low values displayed just a cosmetic 
problem caused by a wrong interpretation of the results reported by the 
kernel.

driverloader slightly adjusts the values to accommodate different and 
slightly incompatible ways that  various GUI utilities interpret the 
numbers reported by drivers. You could try adding a "#define 
NETNDIS_OPTIMIZE_QUAL_FOR_KDE" on top of 
/usr/lib/driverloader/modules/GPL/netndis.c (in the generic version) 
and recompiling the modules with dldrconfig -ka to see if it helps.

Marc

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Marc Boucher
Linuxant inc.

On Jan 8, 2005, at 5:27 PM, Pascal wrote:

>> --- Pascal <pascal.meteye at free.fr> wrote:
>>> I've installer driverloader this day for evaluate
>>> it.
>>> It work very well but I have allways a bad Link
>>> quality.
>>> I' m very near of my AP.
>>> Under Windows XP all is allwright with very best
>>> link quality.
>>>
>>> what can I do to solve this problem ?
>>
>> I had a similar problem.
>>
>> A wireless techie at the Linux user group I frequent
>> said that having the router too close to the computer
>> can affect link quality in a bad way.  It has
>> something to do with the "shape" of the transmitted EM
>> wave and how it is received.  He recommends having the
>> router at least 2 or 3 meters away from any network
>> card.
>>
>> I don't know if it will help you, but it helped me.
>>
>> --
>> Stefan