From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 10:43:44 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 2BD4B106566B for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:43:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sceakie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1988FC0A for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadz30 with SMTP id z30so1719230qad.13 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:43:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; bh=RzhCeN1r1Y5inFIvsu0iVGKlAeDjEjx9VAsoKRNr2Lc=; b=LUItjBA5h++GyVv28dZMuCopnQhMGK9Fqd672ZDwaPEBd/cCKmghN0Ed2ublErzLK0 S3oEykz71+vwthFbqN/e0Y/u0hZqdhuCKKKCbkb08Q5HY4wOmV2qbkPkVN8W1oAuvPYP Ff553cgQDg1DAgvdTMedIfamA9p1xGc2O2l24= Received: by 10.224.208.199 with SMTP id gd7mr2628207qab.32.1318502622824; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.5.245] (178-82-252-216-static.colba.net. [216.252.82.178]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cl1sm6829695qab.0.2011.10.13.03.43.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: Sceak To: Adrian Chadd In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:43:37 -0400 References: <6713814D-D80F-4B7F-A8A0-1D9D793E987E@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) 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 10:43:44 -0000 On Oct 12, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 13 October 2011 03:50, Sceak wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way to increase the scanning sensitivity with the >> Atheros driver? > > With FreeBSD? Which version of FreeBSD? Which NIC? > It's an AR9285 on FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE-amd64, also happens on FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3. > >> 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. Specialized >> applications >> 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 >> roaming >> 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 I was actually expecting to see around 30 networks by default as... well, it's a UNIX-like OS. I'm still trying to get my environment set up, and there's a lot to do. However this installation is still pretty default, I really don't see why it doesn't work. If any kind of diagnostic output would be helpful to you just provide the commands you need me to issue and I'll return it. Sceak