Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:58:11 +0200 From: "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi@gmail.com> To: "Tom Evans" <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: WPI Driver Support (WAS: Re: mode 11g, but 6Mbps) Message-ID: <3a386af20707240758i48c205d4kf6180ce6db3c05e5@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/24/07, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:42 +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > Federico Lorenzi wrote: > > > On 7/24/07, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> wrote: > > >> Hi List, > > >> I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG adapter using the wpi0 driver > > >> connecting to an access point using the 802.11g mode. > > >> # ifconfig wpi0 mode 11g > > >> # ifconfig wpi0 > > >> ... > > >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g (OFDM/6Mbps) > > >> ... > > >> > > >> Can anyone explain why I see OFDM/6Mbps instead of OFDM/54Mbps (or at > > >> least 19Mbps if you mean the actual throughput?) > > > It could depend on a few things, first off remember that it's a highly > > > experimental driver at > > > this stage, and don't mean to be stating the obvious, but are you > > > actually close enough to > > > the AP to get 54mbps? Windows says 54 / 11 no matter what speed it is > > > running at. > > > > Hi Federico, > > > > Actually I'm 4 meters away from the AP. > > I know that wpi is still in pre-alpha state ;-) > > > > Tnx > > > > Heh, at least you have some connectivity - mine is still using none! > > none0@pci8:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086 rev=0x02 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > device = '3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller' > class = network > > Driver either fails to initialise, or panic's my -CURRENT laptop :) > > I'd think its highly likely that performance issues are due to > pre-release quality of the driver. I have the same problem too, which forces me to use a 2 year old atheros pcmcia card. I take it you are trying the perforce version right? I don't suppose you could give me what error message you get so we could 'compare'. Mine is something about not being able to allocate memory. Cheers
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