Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:02:02 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net> Subject: Re: ath driver and wg311t Message-ID: <200407291502.02771.sam@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20040729035107.GA6635@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> References: <20040726191108.5528216A4D3@hub.freebsd.org> <200407290253.45100.robertsg@westnet.com.au> <20040729035107.GA6635@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net>
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On Wednesday 28 July 2004 08:51 pm, John Kennedy wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:53:45AM +1000, Geoff Roberts wrote: > > > On Monday 26 July 2004 07:35 am, Geoff Roberts wrote: > > > > I've got a Netgear WG311T (Atheros chip) card in my FreeBSD current > > > > machine. I'm trying to set it up as an access point. ... > > > > The card at the other end is a netgear WG111 (USB) on windows XP. > > > > > > Your problem is likely due to use of 11g. ?The existing net80211 code > > > in FreeBSD is missing proper 11g support. ?Try forcing the ap to use > > > only 11b and see if things work. > > > > The answer is yes and no. The first time I forced the AP to llb the WG111 > > connected OK. I've since been rebooting both the W2K machine and FreeBSD > > machine over the last day or so and there is still a lot of unsupported > > auth 1 messages. Sometimes they eventually connect and sometimes not. > > As a client, at least, I don't seem to be having any trouble with 11g. Things may work ok in an 11g-only BSS but I'm not sure if the slot time and preamble settings are even done right with the code presently in the system. Things will certainly fail completely if the BSS changes operational parameters; e.g. when an 11b station joins. > > ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fee8:14e1%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 > inet 192.168.0.201 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > ether zzzz > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps) > status: associated > ssid xxxx 1:yyyy > channel 11 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 > wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 > wepkey 1:104-bit > > [ifconfig -m ath0 | grep '11g$'] > media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g > media OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g > media OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g > media OFDM/24Mbps mode 11g > media OFDM/18Mbps mode 11g > media OFDM/12Mbps mode 11g > media OFDM/9Mbps mode 11g > media OFDM/6Mbps mode 11g > media DS/11Mbps mode 11g > media DS/5.5Mbps mode 11g > media DS/2Mbps mode 11g > media DS/1Mbps mode 11g > media autoselect mode 11g > > I'm not seeing a 108Mbps mode available, but haven't got an AP to sync > with yet anyway. > > Note that I'm a client, not an AP. FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #18. There is only support for "static turbo" mode and that is 11a only. Your dmesg output only show b/g rates. Sam
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