From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 13:37:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1459106566B for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 13:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592158FC0C for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 13:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j40so99330rnf.12 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 06:37:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=58DTHX0HOuklB3Bq7BWAX+Z0ip6pjJ9YCgfWW/90jIc=; b=Cq1ulZsnnGNDDetnZTqdsXvamWD5mOHt/p8yDTf29w5R9nTIcwdg6XtUcIBYVNZ/0+ZjSJKteRzt5IT3sLdq3d1sdTMMbTtOZ/o+h/41U9kQohjPIozsSE8aKkb9/6ubjGjfshddTzjOl0L4mcTBWdvkyP1SLDl3W085dQQhh70= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TM1grXibRJs628RMQbtsW6IeI0ZW2ZwKLdYBZHPYq8ypOIS/bPsY0Qg/4K7vFSQuY4ZaQoIpYGqPgkOexNyJdpYklGvHNhQZo9eG/ou5BMV/FhDH+A7PBnoWX6u0H0uckhxHG5G8B0dkARNYEz0TUwUB6wvBeJeZ7CZG3DHK6f8= Received: by 10.142.148.10 with SMTP id v10mr802108wfd.317.1210857019871; Thu, 15 May 2008 06:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.215.15 with HTTP; Thu, 15 May 2008 06:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3a142e750805150610u7c6b1c23u6fca5c215141a208@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:10:19 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: "Mark Kirkwood" In-Reply-To: <482C158F.9050303@paradise.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <482C158F.9050303@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 7-stable on Asus Pro31j - wireless networking X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:37:09 -0000 That is problem IMHO of driver itself, in this case wpi, I have similar exeperience with rum driver. And no, it is not fault of freebsd net80211 code, because ndis works very nice for me. On 5/15/08, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I've recently obtained one of these laptops, and thought I'd try Freebsd > on it. While the install went well and basic functionality is all > present (install from cd works, boots ok afterwards, X works, ethernet > re interface works), there are a few niggles. I'll post about the > others later, but my initial focus is wireless networking. > > The card is an Intel 3945ABG detected as: > > wpi0: mem 0xfe1ff000-0xfe1fffff irq 17 > at device 0.0 on pci3 > wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:77:10:2e:af > wpi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps > 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps > > Doing a basic attempt at an ip address from about 1 metre away from a > Linksys WAG54GV2 (unsecured access for now) results in a working > association: > > $ ifconfig wpi0 inet 192.168.1.65 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid darkmatter > $ ifconfig wpi0 > wpi0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:1b:77:10:2e:af > inet 192.168.1.65 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/9Mbps) > status: associated > ssid darkmatter channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:18:39:6a:73:ec > authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 > protmode CTS > > ... and quite good performance. However moving a very small distance > away - the next room (say 5 metres) quickly results in performance so > poor, it is unusable (timeouts and complaints from ftp sites about too > may connections from my ip). > > Now before scrubbing off that nasty os beginning with W that came with > the laptop I tested wireless performance from several rooms away (say > 10+ metres), and it was acceptable (the purpose of this comment being to > show that in theory, wireless access at greater ranges than I'm seeing > now is possible!). > > Are there any suggestions about how to improve range/performance? as I'm > really enjoying using Freebsd on a laptop - just being a *little* > further away from the access point would be great! > > I'm running 7-STABLE from 28-02-2008. > > Cheers > > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >