From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 1:10:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seven.alameda.net (seven.alameda.net [63.86.88.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E0A37B422; Sun, 20 May 2001 01:10:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf@seven.alameda.net) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by seven.alameda.net (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f4K8BLh95126; Sun, 20 May 2001 01:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf) Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 01:11:21 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Donald Burr of Borg Cc: FreeBSD Mobile , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: WaveLAN: What the heck is TX rate 8 ??! Message-ID: <20010520011121.G7554@seven.alameda.net> Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <20010520001128.S50617-100000@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010520001128.S50617-100000@localhost>; from dburr@borg-cube.com on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:14:51AM -0700 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:14:51AM -0700, Donald Burr of Borg wrote: > [ follow up to -questions please ] > > While messing around with WaveLAN tonight, I noticed something highly > unusual when running wicontrol: > > [dburr@borg-cube:116 ~]% /usr/sbin/wicontrol > NIC serial number: [ 99UT12373929 ] > Station name: [ DATABANK ] > SSID for IBSS creation: [ FreeBSD IBSS ] > [...] > TX rate (selection): [ 3 ] > TX rate (actual speed): [ 5 ] ^^^^^ You mean that ? > [...] > Max sleep time: [ 100 ] > > What the hell is TX rate 8?!! I've never heard of this before, and There > is no mention of it in the wicontrol(8) or wi(4) man pages. Actually, > wicontrol(8) does mention the tx rate settings: > > -i iface -t tx rate > Set the transmit rate of the specified interface. The > legal > values for the transmit rate vary depending on whether > the > interface is a standard WaveLAN/IEEE or a WaveLAN/IEEE > Turbo > adapter. The standard NICs support a maximum transmit > rate > of 2Mbps while the turbo NICs support a maximum speed of > 6Mbps. The following table shows the legal transmit rate > settings and the corresponding transmit speeds: > > TX rate NIC speed > 1 Fixed Low (1Mbps) > 2 Fixed Standard (2Mbps) > 3 Auto Rate Select (High) Card is set to auto rate selection. > 4 Fixed Medium (4Mbps) > 5 Fixed High (6Mbps) And has selected 6Mbps. That is how I would read the "TX rate (selection)" and "TX rate (actual speed)" > 6 Auto Rate Select (Standard) > 7 Auto Rate Select (Medium) > > But, as you can see, there is no mention of the value "8" anywhere here... > > So what is it??! > > If it matters, my network is composed entirely of Bronze Turbo cards (6 > Mbit, no encryption), all of which are upgraded to the latest firmware > (7.something). > > Any advice welcome. Thanks! > -- > Donald Burr of Borg | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! > WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ > P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \----------------------------- > Phone: (805)957-9666 Present Day... Present Time! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message