[driverloader] Broadcom on laptop HP ZD7380ea serie

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

which tool do you use to obtain the link quality? If you read these 
values from the output of 'iwlist' and 'iwconfig', please note that 
these values are logarithmic values and this is why the link quality 
seems to drop so fast when you move the access point farther from the 
wireless card. These values are expected to be read by the various front 
ends and these front ends expect that these values to be in a 
logarithmic scale.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Pascal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've tried 2.24 version, all is allright but
> 
> at 1 meter of my AP I've an link quality to 100% signal 75%
> at 2 meter of my AP I've an link quality to 80% signal 71%
> at 3 meter of my AP I've an link quality to 31% signal 64%
> at 4 meter of my AP I've an link quality to 22% signal 61%
> at 5 meter of my AP I've an link quality to 10% signal 50%
> 
> under XP at 5 meters link quality 100% signal 99%
> 
> why this difference between XP and Linux ?
> 
> before, I've tried the 2.23 version since 1,5 month and it's the same result.
> 
> my XP broadcom drivers is 10/20/2004, 3.70.22.0 I've tried some others
> from broadcom and other sand the results are always the same.
> 
> I've tried ndisdriver too (sorry I'm curious) and the link quality was at 100% 
> and signal at 99% but my system was blocked after some time.
> 
> Thanks' for your help
> 
> (sorry for my my english but I'm french and it's very hard for us :-) )