[driverloader] Signal Levels for WG511v2 (Marvell chipset)

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

do you have the same problem with the same driver under Windows XP? 
Please try with different versions of the Windows XP driver to see if 
there is a difference.

Regards,


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


Gilles Gauthier wrote:
> I obtained my info from the Gnome wireless applet, the
> KDE one, and iwconfig. All of them give similar
> results. The linear values mode appears to give higher
> results, but still fluctuates a lot and drops to 0
> often. I'm not sure what's causing this.
> 
>  --- "Linuxant support (Jonathan)"
> <support at linuxant.com> wrote: 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>where do you obtain your signal level information?
>>If you read it from 
>>the output of the 'iwconfig' and the 'iwlist'
>>commands, then please note 
>>that these values are logarithmic values and this is
>>why they might 
>>change so fast. These values are expected to be
>>parsed by a front end, 
>>for example, the gnome wireless applet.
>>
>>You can have linear values if you prefer. In order
>>to do this, you will 
>>have to modify the source code of DriverLoader a
>>little bit. While the 
>>generic package is installed, in the file 
>>'/usr/lib/driverloader/modules/GPL/netndis.c', look
>>for the 
>>NETNDIS_OPTIMIZE_QUAL_FOR_KDE define and change it
>>the way you want. 
>>After that, please run the following commands to
>>re-compile and re-load 
>>the DriverLoader module:
>>
>>---
>>dldrstop
>>dldrconfig -k
>>dldrconfig -i
>>---
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>
>>Jonathan
>>Technical specialist / Linuxant
>>www.linuxant.com
>>support at linuxant.com
>>
>>
>>Gilles Gauthier wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I noticed that the signal levels with this card
>>
>>seem
>>
>>>to be all over the place and seem wrong. It will
>>
>>jump
>>
>>>from signals in the 90s to nearly 0 in seconds
>>
>>without
>>
>>>me moving, but the connection is never lost, which
>>>leads me to believe the signal levels are being
>>>reported wrong for some reason. Anyone have any
>>
>>ideas
>>
>>>as to what may be causing this? DriverLoader works
>>>fantastic otherwise, but this is a bit of an
>>
>>annoyance
>>
>>>for me.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
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