Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:22:11 -0500 From: "Matt Haught" <haughtlists@hotmail.com> To: sam@errno.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new wi0 slowness Message-ID: <F124dGEhK1GhdB5VdAE00005cd2@hotmail.com>
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Alright, I have disabled IPSec and updated the firmware to read:
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9)
sysctl kern.wi_txerate=0 gives: sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.wi_txerate'
I reran my test and I am still transfering at ~870Kb/s. netstat -i -I wi0
shows this after the transfers:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Coll
wi0 1500 <Link#1> 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0 29847 0 53331 59
557
wi0 1500 192.168.168 wifi 59 - 52085 -
-
Here is something odd that I found: I set the mediaopt to adhoc in rc.conf
and rebooted again, and here is what I found (I was not sure how to clear
the counters that you wanted in netstat so I rebooted):
The same files transfer at ~5600Kb/s, so its back where it was with the old
driver. Here is netstat -i again after this run:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Coll
wi0 1500 <Link#1> 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0 27497 0 51230 13
452
wi0 1500 192.168.168 wifi 61 - 51200 -
-
So there are 4 times more Oerrs in hostap mode (59 to 13), and just a few
more collisions.
I almost forgot, here are ifconfig wi0 outputs:
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.168.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.168.255
ether 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap> (DS/2Mbps
<host
ap>)
status: associated
ssid HaughtDom 1:HaughtDom
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
and with adhoc:
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.168.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.168.255
ether 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (DS/11Mbps
<adho
c>)
status: associated
ssid HaughtDom 1:HaughtDom
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
I can also start a transfer test in hostap mode (~670Kb/s) and use ifconfig
to switch over to adhoc, and after a second or two while my laptop switches
over, it transfers at ~5600Kb/s. I don't use wicontrol at all. My transfer
test is just 67MB of mp3s off the fbsd machine. If you need any more info,
just drop me a message.
--Matt
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