From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 01:04:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2177E106566C for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:04:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64398FC12 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggeq3 with SMTP id q3so1636849gge.13 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:04:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=nTld8VSGwaYS69yHWXZfC+c96S4m60drMk9m+7N0h2I=; b=sYlkwaKRPcqq9CdieamFUXFofwBZrVHjZscT9l5T7C9KgXUk68ORDe4UTv1IG5+oZo COavcmNFuYz1sWh+wT30RJJlPp3xT2BZD0V5Dh5Gk5dEeKBCg4qxpv2xAl06XYTr3qA5 xm/OOKlBZVXIvOWRdY+6z+1ALw7GEi1sh0TzU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.161.10 with SMTP id v10mr1746612yhk.88.1318466138208; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.175.161 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:35:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6713814D-D80F-4B7F-A8A0-1D9D793E987E@gmail.com> References: <6713814D-D80F-4B7F-A8A0-1D9D793E987E@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:35:38 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: viSCE8_h_lwRibV1bW6MF8JuNCc Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Sceak Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scanning with ath X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:04:48 -0000 On 13 October 2011 03:50, Sceak wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to increase the scanning sensitivity with the Atheros driv= er? With FreeBSD? Which version of FreeBSD? Which NIC? > I have an Apple computer and that machine came with Windows and both are > able to scan about 3 to 10 APs per active scan. =A0Specialized applicatio= ns > are able to pick-up about 30 beacons. > > For a long time I though that the adapter was only able to scan the most > powerful AP in range, the one on the floor above, until I set my Apple > machine to act as a WEP AP and I was able to pick it up along the other > network. > > Right now it's using the default settings, I played around with the roami= ng > settings, alas to no avail. > > > Suggestions? net80211 may be discarding some of the beacons, I'd need to re-read the code first to see where/why. But it should already be pretty damned sensitive.. Adrian