Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:08:32 -0800 (PST) From: Trigve Siver <trigves@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: DWL-G520 low signal, low speed Message-ID: <20070110110833.23305.qmail@web52715.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi,
I have a problem with my wifi DWL G520 atheros chip based card... I have low signal only 20-30% and also a low speed 5-11 Mbit/s..router is only 1-2 m away from me and with gentoo I have 90% signal strength..I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 PRERELEASE
$ dmesg -a |grep ath
ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe7000000-0xe700ffff irq 19 at device 2.0 on pci2
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:17:9a:af:62:da
ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 150
rc.conf:
ifconfig_ath0="WPA inet 192.168.1.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 mode 11g"
$ ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:17:9a:af:62:da
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid 3Com channel 1 bssid 00:12:a9:c4:41:22
authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 3:128-bit txpowmax 36
bmiss 7 protmode CTS burst roaming MANUAL bintval 100
Anyone could help?
thanks
Trigve
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