From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 0:14:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from borg-cube.com (226-193.adsl2.netlojix.net [207.71.226.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8877237B422; Sun, 20 May 2001 00:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@borg-cube.com) Received: from borg-cube.com (dburr@borg-cube.com [207.71.226.193] (may be forged)) by borg-cube.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4K7EpR50707; Sun, 20 May 2001 00:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@borg-cube.com) Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:14:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr of Borg To: FreeBSD Mobile Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: WaveLAN: What the heck is TX rate 8 ??! Message-ID: <20010520001128.S50617-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ follow up to -questions please ] While messing around with WaveLAN tonight, I noticed something highly unusual when running wicontrol: [dburr@borg-cube:116 ~]% /usr/sbin/wicontrol NIC serial number: [ 99UT12373929 ] Station name: [ DATABANK ] SSID for IBSS creation: [ FreeBSD IBSS ] [...] TX rate (selection): [ 3 ] TX rate (actual speed): [ 5 ] [...] Max sleep time: [ 100 ] What the hell is TX rate 8?!! I've never heard of this before, and There is no mention of it in the wicontrol(8) or wi(4) man pages. Actually, wicontrol(8) does mention the tx rate settings: -i iface -t tx rate Set the transmit rate of the specified interface. The legal values for the transmit rate vary depending on whether the interface is a standard WaveLAN/IEEE or a WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo adapter. The standard NICs support a maximum transmit rate of 2Mbps while the turbo NICs support a maximum speed of 6Mbps. The following table shows the legal transmit rate settings and the corresponding transmit speeds: TX rate NIC speed 1 Fixed Low (1Mbps) 2 Fixed Standard (2Mbps) 3 Auto Rate Select (High) 4 Fixed Medium (4Mbps) 5 Fixed High (6Mbps) 6 Auto Rate Select (Standard) 7 Auto Rate Select (Medium) But, as you can see, there is no mention of the value "8" anywhere here... So what is it??! If it matters, my network is composed entirely of Bronze Turbo cards (6 Mbit, no encryption), all of which are upgraded to the latest firmware (7.something). Any advice welcome. Thanks! -- Donald Burr of Borg | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \----------------------------- Phone: (805)957-9666 Present Day... Present Time! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message