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Date:      Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:03:42 -0500
From:      Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com>, "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: AR9285 not see n-channels
Message-ID:  <50CC9F5E.6080102@a1poweruser.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomU%2BtB4-xNP_tw4KdomQ_3OqSnfesybrGeNBfS2oSk7OA@mail.gmail.com>
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> Adrian
> 
> On 12 December 2012 17:39, Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The AR9285 is a 2GHz only NIC.
>>>
>>> The channel list shows 11b, 11bg, HT20 and HT40 channels.
>>>
>>> It all looks right, why don't you think it is?
>>>
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12 December 2012 17:32, Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> .. yup, you're doing 11n! Welcome!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Adrian
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12 December 2012 16:54, Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Yup. It's doing 11n rates.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Compile and run athstats, it'll tell you how many aggregate frames are being
>>>>>>> sent and received.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Adrian
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent from my Palm Pre on AT&T
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>> On Dec 12, 2012 4:39 PM, Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> What's 'ifconfig wlan0' and 'ifconfig wlan0 list sta' look like?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> adrian
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 12 December 2012 15:51, Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I have
>>>>>>>>> # uname -a
>>>>>>>>> FreeBSD beastie.mydomain.local 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #1
>>>>>>>>> r243259: Mon Nov 19 09:28:08 MSK 2012
>>>>>>>>> root@beastie.mydomain.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/W_BOOK amd64
>>>>>>>>> # grep ATH /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/W_BOOK
>>>>>>>>> options ATH_ENABLE_11N
>>>>>>>>> options ATH_DEBUG
>>>>>>>>> options ATH_DIAGAPI
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> pciconf
>>>>>>>>> ath0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0xe016105b chip=0x002b168c
>>>>>>>>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>>>>>>>> vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>>>>>>>> device = 'AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)'
>>>>>>>>> class = network
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> # ifconfig -v wlan0 list channel
>>>>>>>>> Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11b Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g ht/20
>>>>>>>>> Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11b
>>>>>>>>> Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g ht/20 Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g
>>>>>>>>> Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11b Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g ht/20
>>>>>>>>> Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11g Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11b
>>>>>>>>> ....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> wi-fi router have and enable n-mode (linksys e4200)
>>>>>>>>> How to turn on or activate n-mode?
>>>>>>> # ifconfig wlan0 list sta
>>>>>>> ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
>>>>>>> 58:6d:8f:fa:d9:50 5 12 72M 27.5 0 2079 31872 EP AQEHTRS
>>>>>>> RSN HTCAP WME WPS
>>>>>>> # ifconfig wlan0
>>>>>>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>>>>> ether 4c:0f:6e:4b:4e:f5
>>>>>>> inet 192.168.1.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>>>>>> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>>>>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
>>>>>>> status: associated
>>>>>>> ssid hometest channel 12 (2467 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid 58:6d:8f:fa:d9:50
>>>>>>> regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>>>>>>> deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7
>>>>>>> scanvalid 60 protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 4 shortgi wme
>>>>>>> burst roaming MANUAL
>>>>>> # ./athstats
>>>>>> 526213       data frames received
>>>>>> 10205        data frames transmit
>>>>>> 79           short on-chip tx retries
>>>>>> 103          long on-chip tx retries
>>>>>> 16           tx failed 'cuz too many retries
>>>>>> 220          mib overflow interrupts
>>>>>> MCS7         current transmit rate
>>>>>> 1            watchdog timeouts
>>>>>> 42           beacon miss interrupts
>>>>>> 23154        rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC
>>>>>> 56           rx failed 'cuz of PHY err
>>>>>>     56           illegal service
>>>>>> 1638         periodic calibrations
>>>>>> -0/+0        TDMA slot adjust (usecs, smoothed)
>>>>>> 56           rssi of last ack
>>>>>> 50           avg recv rssi
>>>>>> -96          rx noise floor
>>>>>> 13           phantom beacon misses
>>>>>> 6569         tx frames through raw api
>>>>>> 1460         A-MPDU sub-frames received
>>>>>> 183          Half-GI frames received
>>>>>> 183          40MHz frames received
>>>>>> 2397         CRC errors for non-last A-MPDU subframes
>>>>>> 3151         Frames transmitted with HT Protection
>>>>>> 25           A-MPDU sub-frame TX attempt success
>>>>>> 2            first step level
>>>>>> 1            OFDM weak signal detect
>>>>>> 268          listen time
>>>>>> 190          ANI increased spur immunity
>>>>>> 174          ANI decrease spur immunity
>>>>>> 2            ANI enabled OFDM weak signal detect
>>>>>> 3517         ANI disabled OFDM weak signal detect
>>>>>> 3515         ANI disabled CCK weak signal threshold
>>>>>> 4            ANI increased first step level
>>>>>> 2            ANI decreased first step level
>>>>>> 154772       cumulative OFDM phy error count
>>>>>> 528256       cumulative CCK phy error count
>>>>>> 851          ANI forced listen time to zero
>>>>>> 26           missing ACK's
>>>>>> 78           RTS without CTS
>>>>>> 3135         successful RTS
>>>>>> 65747        bad FCS
>>>>>> 473007       beacons received
>>>>>> 53           average rssi (beacons only)
>>>>>> 35           average rssi (all rx'd frames)
>>>>>> 48           average rssi (ACKs only)
>>>>>> Antenna profile:
>>>>>> [0] tx    10173 rx        4
>>>>>> [1] tx        0 rx   526209
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # ./athaggrstats
>>>>>> 17       single frames scheduled
>>>>>> 9        aggregate frames scheduled
>>>>>> 1217     single frames scheduled due to low HWQ depth
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aggregate size profile:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  0:            0  1:            0  2:            6  3:            2
>>>>>>  4:            0  5:            0  6:            0  7:            1
>>>>>>  8:            0  9:            0 10:            0 11:            0
>>>> why # ifconfig -v wlan0 list channel
>>>> show only b and g channels? and only 13? or this restriction AR9285
>>>>
>>>> though
>>>> # iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 192.168.1.26 -w 1024K -l 1024K
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Client connecting to 192.168.1.26, TCP port 5001
>>>> TCP window size: 1.00 MByte (WARNING: requested 1.00 MByte)
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> [  3] local 192.168.1.41 port 22263 connected with 192.168.1.26 port 5001
>>>> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
>>>> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  54.0 MBytes  45.3 Mbits/sec
>> Thanks
>>
>> I was confused that there is no mention n-mode in the output channel list
> 
Adrian Chadd wrote:
 > Right, that's what "HT" is for.
 >
 >

Well it would be much clearer to understand by changing the output of 
the the channel list to show 11b, 11bg, 11n20 and 11n40 channels instead 
of HT20 and HT40, so people would readily know n-mode was active. HT has 
no meaning to the general user.




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