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| author | Olivier Hochreutiner <olivier.hochreutiner@epfl.ch> | 2006-03-07 20:13:55 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2006-03-17 21:08:04 +0100 |
| commit | 651be26f2daf31e61faf4b55ada709cf39ec76a2 (patch) | |
| tree | cac9bac812d1ecc1f85bce54a2591cab34752627 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | [PATCH] ipw2200: Enables the "slow diversity" algorithm (diff) | |
| download | linux-651be26f2daf31e61faf4b55ada709cf39ec76a2.tar.xz linux-651be26f2daf31e61faf4b55ada709cf39ec76a2.zip | |
[PATCH] ipw2200: wireless extension sensitivity threshold support
The patch allows the user to set the handover threshold, i.e. the number
of consecutively missed beacons that will trigger a roaming attempt. The
disassociation threshold is set to 3 times the handover threshold.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Hochreutiner <olivier.hochreutiner@epfl.ch>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 index 712c5681338b..c2f693e24c7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Index 2. Ad-Hoc Networking 3. Interacting with Wireless Tools 3.1. iwconfig mode +3.2. iwconfig sens 4. About the Version Numbers 5. Firmware installation 6. Support @@ -383,6 +384,15 @@ When configuring the mode of the adapter, all run-time configured parameters are reset to the value used when the module was loaded. This includes channels, rates, ESSID, etc. +3.2 iwconfig sens +----------------------------------------------- + +The 'iwconfig ethX sens XX' command will not set the signal sensitivity +threshold, as described in iwconfig documentation, but rather the number +of consecutive missed beacons that will trigger handover, i.e. roaming +to another access point. At the same time, it will set the disassociation +threshold to 3 times the given value. + 4. About the Version Numbers ----------------------------------------------- |