On Sun, 15 21:18 , STeve Andre' wrote: > On 01/15/12 20:52, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >On 2012-01-15, Markus<[email protected]> wrote: > >>I'm in the process of finding out why my Ubiquity SR7-e PCIe > >>module worked perfectly with the 29.12.2011-snapshot, while I > >>only see problems with the 13.01.2012-snapshot. > >... > >>I skimmed the CVS commit log from end of December to know and did > >>not spot any changes that would make me suspicious in the first > >>place. > >Me neither. But around this time of year it's more likely than usual > >that people might have new wireless gadgets which might be tickling > >an existing bug. Does reverting to the older kernel restore things?
As I don't have any kernel from back then (faithfully overwrote just the whole disk at reinstall), I took the effort of pulling cvs sources from that date and building a new old kernel. I even built it with COUNTRYCODE defined to "00" in ar5xxx.c one time in order to exclude potential problems with the regulatory domain. This didn't turn out to be relevant though. Booting with this kernel indeed restored the expected (good) behaviour. > >>This is the CE-version of the module, reduced to > >>100 dBm, BTW. > >I think (hope :) you're confusing your units here. > > > > > Um, yeah--100dBm is 10 mega watts. The laptop (and user) might > catch fire exposed to that kind of RF. I admit my hands have been faster than my brain here :) I even bugged the manufacturer again about the ominous CE certification the module has. The reply was: The module is running on 100 mW if its told its located in the German regulatory domain. Otherwise its capable of sending with at TX power of up to 26 dBm (no confusion this time). I also have two 5 dBi antennas to connect (one currently attached). Right now, I run the following version without problems: OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC) #135: Sun Jan 15 13:04:45 MST 2012 So as it looks now, the Ubiquity SR71-E module works. I will keep an eye on it since all this still appears quite strange to me. I don't really have any indication why it does work right now. All the best, /Markus
