[Voyage-linux] Re: [Madwifi-users] Big problem: Madwifi/Hal restriction of sensitivity (apart from limiting output power)

[Michael Renzmann]

Hi.

Removed madwifi-devel from the CC list, it's enough if one of our lists
get this thread. In addition I don't see why the voyage-linux list has
been CCed (for an other reason than causing bigger waves), but ok...

> I'm not selling nor using mikrotik but I think again it's a very sad
> story.

I agree that Atheros has to be asked why such a limitation is applied.
Anyway, nobody is forced to use MadWifi - if you think that other drivers
provide better support for your WLAN hardware, you're free to change.
Please remember that MadWifi is for free and the driver as such is open
sourced, while other drivers are not free (neither as in freedom nor as in
free beer).

> Any ideas what we can do apart from buying a atheros licence and develop
> an own driver and release it for 1US$ ???

You could invest some time to enhance MadWifi. We're depending on the help
of the community to get things done (heck, this is a community project),
and the more people spend us their time, the easier and faster we reach
our goals. That's how open source works.

Regarding the HAL-applied limitations we have to live with what Atheros
gives us. Anyway, Atheros has been a great help in the past, and I'm
pretty sure they will be in the future as well. If there is a reason for
the limitation you've described it will be explained, and if it's a bug it
will be fixed.

Bye, Mike