Thread: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2011-01-12 , 21:52
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#255
Originally Posted by mveplus View Post
First want to say that I'm so greatfull to lxp and all maemo community, for making my N900 better and better every single day!

I want to add some observation only when the injection driver is loaded
Code:
# sh load.sh
The battery drainage is heavy regardless wlan0 is connected to AP or not - without using software for package injection during that period of time. Over all temperature is going higher that normal for may N900 ( ussualy 27-33°C raising up to 37-40°C)

I just spot it that module omap2_mc spi is loading CPU more than normal? Can somebody confirm that?
This solve the problem
Code:
#sh unload.sh
Except that over all experience with all fixes is great - I have better sensitivity and reception that before and no dropping the connection at all on places than before was hard to work without loosing signal every 1-5 minutes.

Adding a few screenshots, injection is working!

For interested battery graph image with some 'on picture' explanation

Cheers! Keep the good work lxp!
I don't have this problem, actually, at all. I've been watching my battery usage since I've seen the first report of heavy battery usage on this thread.

I've actually left lxp's driver loaded overnight, and/or for hours at a time, and haven't noticed significant battery drain - even in comparison to leaving the WiFi modules/drivers unloaded (which is what I normally do, using Advance Interface Switcher). Barely any, if any, difference in battery use for me.

I ALSO have left the interface in monitor mode... Now that DOES use up more battery and causes the device to heat up a little. But that's because if you look in the stats iwconfig/ifconfig reports, the wifi card is busy receiving and processing quite a lot of packets, so unless you're completely outside the range of any wifi APs, it will be using wifi card/cpu a lot more than it would if all your interfaces are in managed more.
 

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