From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 13 06:26:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D628316A40F for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hardware@dino.sk) Received: from bsd.dino.sk (bsd.dino.sk [213.215.72.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF4513C428 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hardware@dino.sk) Received: from lex.dino.sk (home.dino.sk [84.245.95.252]) (AUTH: PLAIN milan, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by bsd.dino.sk with esmtp; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:19:22 +0100 id 000000CA.45A879EA.00016849 From: Milan Obuch To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:16:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20070110110833.23305.qmail@web52715.mail.yahoo.com> <45A85CAF.8060309@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <45A85CAF.8060309@errno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701130716.08587.freebsd-hardware@dino.sk> Subject: Re: DWL-G520 low signal, low speed X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:26:49 -0000 On Saturday 13 January 2007 05:14, Sam Leffler wrote: > Trigve Siver wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem with my wifi DWL G520 atheros chip based card... I have > > low signal only 20-30% and also a low speed 5-11 Mbit/s..router is only > > 1-2 m away from me and with gentoo I have 90% signal strength..I'm using > > FreeBSD 6.2 PRERELEASE > > > > $ dmesg -a |grep ath > > ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, > > RF5413) ath0: mem 0xe7000000-0xe700ffff irq 19 at device > > 2.0 on pci2 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:17:9a:af:62:da > > ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6 > > ath0: flags=8843 mtu 150 > > > > rc.conf: > > ifconfig_ath0="WPA inet 192.168.1.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 mode 11g" > > > > $ ifconfig ath0 > > ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > inet 192.168.1.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > ether 00:17:9a:af:62:da > > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g > > (DS/11Mbps) status: associated > > ssid 3Com channel 1 bssid 00:12:a9:c4:41:22 > > authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 3:128-bit txpowmax 36 > > bmiss 7 protmode CTS burst roaming MANUAL bintval 100 > > > > Anyone could help? > > I see no indication of rssi on freebsd or any statistics to show issues > with lost packets. gentoo likely uses madwifi which uses the same hal > (or older) than what is in freebsd. As such I'd expect no difference in > operation wrt signal or link level behaviour. > Unfortunately, this is the case here too. On one link, approx. 3 km distance, I got no link with both sides FreeBSD, athstats reported rssi 6 when one side was changed to Linux with madwifi, and rssi 23 when both sides were Linux. I was forced to use Linux on all radio links due this. I would like to repeat this test indoor, but did not have time yet. This drives me crazy because I am forced to use system I don't like :( Milan -- No need to mail me directly. Just reply to mailing list, please.