Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 13:16:26 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 7-stable on Asus Pro31j - wireless networking Message-ID: <482E31EA.6020309@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <482CBEB3.1050509@paradise.net.nz> References: <482C158F.9050303@paradise.net.nz> <3a142e750805150610u7c6b1c23u6fca5c215141a208@mail.gmail.com> <482CBEB3.1050509@paradise.net.nz>
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> That is problem IMHO of driver itself, in this case wpi, I have
>> similar exeperience with rum driver. And no, it is not fault of
>> freebsd net80211 code, because ndis works very nice for me.
>>
>>
> Thanks Paul - worth knowing that wireless works well for some drivers.
> The wpi driver is fairly new, so I'll try updating to the latest
> 7-stable and see if that helps!
>
The update to 7-stable 15-05-2008 seemed to help a little, especially
when specifying the mode (11g). I've also disabled SMP (working on
suspend/resume) and switched to ULE scheduler - not sure these are
having any additional effect.
Scan works now (used to just hang):
$ ifconfig wpi0 up scan
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
darkmatter 00:18:39:6a:73:ec 1 54M 30:0 100 ES
Adding:
ifconfig_wpi0="mode 11g ssid darkmatter DHCP"
to rc.conf gives:
$ ifconfig wpi0
wpi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:1b:77:10:2e:af
inet 192.168.1.64 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g (OFDM/54Mbps)
status: associated
ssid darkmatter channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:18:39:6a:73:ec
authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
protmode CTS
at about 1 metre range (was 36Mps before), and altho range is poor - I
can use the laptop in the next room (5 metres), which is a definite
improvement. Again, I'm not sure if specifying the mode is what is
helping here... I'll have to go back and retry without that and see. In
addition, I'm wondering if I might get better range/performance by
changing the router to 11b only using "mode 11b" in the config.
regards
Mark
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