Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:07:26 -0200 (BRDT) From: Luiz Otavio Souza <luiz@microeletronica.com.br> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Dias_Gon=E7alves?= <ddg@yan.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Senao Wireless Hidden SSID Message-ID: <20050215105504.L6906@serv-qmp.walk.com.br> In-Reply-To: <4211CE08.4090603@yan.com.br> References: <4211511A.7030600@yan.com.br> <20050215001315.K98034@serv-qmp.walk.com.br> <4211CE08.4090603@yan.com.br>
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Daniel, Sorry, i'm wrong about that. The hidden ssid ready driver is in OpenBSD (see WI_RID_ENH_SECURITY in if_wi_ieee.h). The NetBSD porting is just an auto rate fix. The ifconfig support is in 6-CURRENT (or in the patch for 5.X). []s Luiz On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote: > Luiz, > > NetBSD 2.0 have mode HIDDEN SSID in ifconfig and wi(4) ? > Who is porting the NetBSD wi driver ? Has a page of the patch? > Has some HACK to wi driver on FreeBSD as that one that force TX RATE: > > --------//-------- > http://excamera.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi > Sun, 16 May 2004 > > *wi hostap fix, kind of* > I spent a few hours tinkering (tampering?) with this driver, and have a fix. > I've verified that it works: my download speed went up from 170 kbytes/sec to > 470 kbytes/sec, which is what I'd expect on an 11Mbps network. If anyone's > interested, here it is: The Intersil manual on page 4-28 says that transmit > packets need to have their TxRate field filled in with 10,20,55 or 110, > depending on the transmission speed. The 4.X driver sets the field > tx_frame.wi_tx_rate in function wihap_check_tx(), called from wi_start(). The > 5.X driver calls this field frmhdr.wi_tx_rate, and leaves it zero. If you > want to run at 11MBps, add a line > > frmhdr.wi_tx_rate = 110; > > in wi_start(), just before the call to wi_write_bap(). (Obviously, this is > just a cheesy hack. The real code would have to find the actual tx rate. I > just want to point out where the problem lies). > --------//-------- > > []s Daniel Dias Gonçalveshelp
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