Signal sensitivity problem with if_rum

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat May 2 00:16:15 UTC 2009


On 5/1/09, Gustau Perez <gperez at entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>
>> There is several places where bbp17 is changed.
>>
>>
>
>    Editing the code looking for calls to the function rum_bbp_write,
> I've been able to find where bbp17 is changed at init. Changing
> rum_def_bbp[3] (which is reg 17) to values quite 'big' like 0x10 or 0x14
> doesn't seem to affect its behaviour.
>
>    Lowering it even more (0x01for example) sometimes shows more
> reacheable AP's in range; but signal quality still very bad.
>  Changing RT2573_NOISE_FLOOR doesn't make any change (in terms of signal
> quality, which remains the same).
>
>   Any idea if is there anything to change/tune ?

There is not just bbp17 to tune there are probably others much more important
registers.

But as I already mentioned that code is completly missing.

-- 
Paul


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