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Date:      Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:10:09 +0200
From:      "Anatoli Marinov" <linman800@gmail.com>
To:        "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wireless low speed
Message-ID:  <73505da00803080210g73ce5d26rc24412f544015159@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0803080124x41232791kb0ebfd18ed64be13@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <73505da00803071456nc6ecfdbs336348a01904d387@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0803080124x41232791kb0ebfd18ed64be13@mail.gmail.com>

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> You need to specify something like "media OFDM/54Mbps" in the ifconfig
> command you configure the interface with. You can change this setting
> during operation, too.
> See the ifconfig manpage for more information on the "media" option
> and what settings are possible. man ral should contain some
> information on this topic, too.
>
> I tried this and now my ifconfig is :
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:0e:2e:ec:e1:3d
        inet 172.16.4.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.4.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g <hostap>
        status: associated
        ssid freebsdap channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:0e:2e:ec:e1:3d
        authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 50
        scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7
        roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS dtimperiod 1

Unfortunately there is not such information in ral(4), ifconfig(8) or
wlan(4). The issue still exist. I set the media to OFDM/54Mbps and can do
only 180 KBps. Very bad.
Any ideas?



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