From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 03:24:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E6116A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:24:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13AE743D45 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:24:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0I3Ogkw079300 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0I3Ogt5063088 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0I3OgUU063087 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200501180324.j0I3OgUU063087@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <41EC2B8A.1040709@comcast.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:24:42 -0800 (PST) X-Copyright0: Copyright 2004 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL119 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: ath driver transmit power? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:24:43 -0000 Kris Maglione wrote: > Slightly off-topic, but does anyone if/when the native ath driver will > support turbo modes (mainly for 11a, since both my card and my driver > support it.). With turbo mode, this thing can go faster than my > hard-wired ethernet, even through a wall with 11a. Um, I _think_ I'm running mine in turbo mode right now. At least, the access point and ifconfig both think so. lap# ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet XXXXXXXXXXXX netmask XXXXXXXXXXXX broadcast XXXXXXXXXXXX ether XXXXXXXXXXXX media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a (OFDM/18Mbps ) status: associated ssid "Wired A" channel 58 bssid 00:02:6f:20:b6:a9 (Since I'm mentioning this, one thing I ran into is that the rate control isn't very responsive; I improved that by setting dev.ath.0.rate_interval to 250. I'm currently using the 'onoe' rate module. The change made a very noticeable difference.) I'm running -current. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/