From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 04:37:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FAA16A400 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:37:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roisoleil14@gmail.com) Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8974B43D48 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:37:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roisoleil14@gmail.com) Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t32so790958pyc for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:37:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=BlsyIE78+FeY4sylZDsEOuh/cBEyGwuYPM7PaGh5YcngsS6b1SUJLKS7GMyLqIeYyubAqoJcGsaZZs4V0MtlUVALPPGh1cTeQHF/zT4NhwxxC5EAAbQBHzODbVQ9YJtRyFRCNdPeUqhgZEIdM8Sq8tBw8hFER7oSTTXEU7U0Q/o= Received: by 10.35.77.18 with SMTP id e18mr475599pyl; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.105? ( [69.134.230.201]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id n62sm514999pyf.2006.04.17.21.37.57; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44446CFA.1040606@aol.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:37:14 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060415) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Olivier Wouters Subject: Ural0 Connectivity Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:37:59 -0000 Hi, I am relatively new to FreeBSD (I use 6.0-RELEASE-p6) having only used it for approximately 2 months, and have run into a little bit of a problem with my wireless setup. I am currently using a WUSB54G ver. 4 (Linksys Wireless-G USB network adapter: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1115416827517&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper) with the router ( a Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router) being downstairs. My particular network adapter uses the Ralink RT2500 chipset, and the Ural driver, which was ported over from OpenBSD, supports this particular chipset. I have gotten ural to work on boot by adding the following into /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ural0="DHCP netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid holo wepmode on wepkey 0x[wep key] weptxkey 1". However, my connection is rather poor to my router, with my connection strength staying at 7%, intermittently jumping up to 85% every now and then. I can't quite understand why my connection is so bad, and it is irritating me as I often lose connection entirely and am forced to as root run the the ifconfig line and then dhclient ural0 to regain connection. Here is the output of dmesg for my nic and usb: $ dmesg | grep usb usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 usb2: on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 usb3: EHCI version 1.0 usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3: on ehci0 usb3: USB revision 2.0 $ dmesg | grep ural0 ural0: Cisco-Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter, rev 2.00/0.04, addr 2 ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x05), RF RT2526 ural0: Ethernet address: 00:12:17:75:c8:a8 ural0: if_start running deferred for Giant $ Has anyone encountered similar difficulties or happen to know what may be the cause of this problem. I had no problems with connection or connection loss in Windows XP, so i am quite clueless for this strange connection loss and low connectivity. Thanks in advance for any aid. Olivier W.