Change wireless interface "sens" value how?

[JD]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:09 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:04 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually, my chipset is the RalinkTech RT2860, which is now supported
> > by mainline (AFAIK). It seems serialmonkey no longer maintains this
> > driver???
> >
> > At any rate, I have had other issues with the rt2xxx driver re: setting
> the
> > Tx power.
> > After I opened a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org, I received a patch which
> took
> > care
> > of the problem.
> >
> > So, I am hoping that they will pay attention to this and provide a patch.
>
> I tried some tests with a laptop running ipw2200 running under
> Fedora F15 (nightly live image which was built yesterday). Adjusting
> the sens parameter does let the laptop roam beautifully between two
> APs with the same ssid. In this case the driver gives positive
> integers for the sens parameter.  So it seems I do
> indeed need to chase down the driver code for my other netbook (ath5k)
> which does not permit changes to, or report, the sens parameter.
>
> At some point I will test another machine running iwlwifi 4965 but it
> is a little late Sunday evening here. However I am now confident that
> this will work fine - and NetworkManager is not a problem when it
> comes to roaming!
>
> So I guess you will also need to chase the RALink driver code and hope
> that it can be made to include the sensitivity... or switch wireless
> cards to one which does support it!
>
> This has certainly been a learning curve for me!
> --
> mike c
>
>
Excellent!
I sure do hope I get some feedback on my bug report.
No one has responded to the bug so far.

If yo do trace the code that works, and find that it could be generic
and can be integrated in other drivers, please let me know.
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