From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 01:50:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A76106567C for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:50:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailbox@ramon-galiote.org) Received: from smtp2f.orange.fr (smtp2f.orange.fr [80.12.242.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7748FC14 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:50:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailbox@ramon-galiote.org) Received: from smtp2f.orange.fr (mwinf2f24 [10.232.18.124]) by mwinf2f20.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C68341C6506D for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2f24.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 627DF7000083 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from droopy.ramon-galiote.org (ARennes-356-1-140-218.w86-220.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.220.219.218]) by mwinf2f24.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1674A7000082 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:48 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20080910212248920.1674A7000082@mwinf2f24.orange.fr Received: from localhost (localhost.ramon-galiote.org [127.0.0.1]) by droopy.ramon-galiote.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m8ALMjI0008781 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailbox@ramon-galiote.org) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ramon-galiote.org Received: from droopy.ramon-galiote.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (droopy.ramon-galiote.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 93lFLbFQScql for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from droopy.ramon-galiote.org (localhost.ramon-galiote.org [127.0.0.1]) by droopy.ramon-galiote.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m8ALMecs008776 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailbox@ramon-galiote.org) Received: from 10.1.0.243 (SquirrelMail authenticated user toffi) by droopy.ramon-galiote.org with HTTP; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51360.10.1.0.243.1221081760.squirrel@droopy.ramon-galiote.org> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:40 +0200 (CEST) From: "Christophe Ramon" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (droopy.ramon-galiote.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Using long preambles on an Atheros WG311T wireless card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:50:31 -0000 Dear all I'm running hostapd on a FreeBSD 6.1 server and an Atheros WG311T wireless card. ath0: flags=8843 mtu 2290 inet6 fe80::214:6cff:fe72:a9fa%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 10.1.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.0.255 ether 00:14:6c:72:a9:fa media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b status: associated ssid freebsdap channel 11 bssid 00:14:6c:72:a9:fa authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpowmax 37 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 1 bintval 100 I am desperately trying to switch the wireless card to use long preambles instead of Short ones (to be able to avoid the many frames lost between the WG311T card and an iPod Touch): SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS freebsdap 00:14:6c:72:a9:fa 11 11M 29:0 100 EPS RSN Didn't find any way so far ! Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks. C. Ramon