From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 17:25:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039F016A41F for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:25:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BB943D79 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:25:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.248] (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k04HPPo7022801 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <43BC0563.3050600@errno.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:26:59 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051227) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dandee@volny.cz References: <001401c61124$5c5f4480$6508280a@tocnet28.jspoj.czf> In-Reply-To: <001401c61124$5c5f4480$6508280a@tocnet28.jspoj.czf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient ignoring link on wi0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:25:39 -0000 Daniel Dvorak wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >>[ > > mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Gilbert > >>Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:03 AM >>To: Alexander Leidinger >>Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org; David Gilbert >>Subject: Re: dhclient ignoring link on wi0 >> >> >>I also thought that someone might have comments about a wi0 >>as an access point. This used to work, but all clients (even >>windoze) seem to loose association every 20 to 40 minutes >>(although the timing is random it seems). >> >> >>Dave. > > > Not only this one, to make the picture complete. For example, another > relevant issue is: > > from rc.conf: > > ifconfig_wi1="inet w.x.y.z/m ssid A mediaopt hostap channel 4 up" > > reality ? > > # ifconfig wi1 > wi1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps > ) > status: associated > > authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 dtimperiod 1 bintval 100 > > It has never reached more than DS/2Mbps in hostap mode. That is a firmware issue. OTOH there are patches floating around that bypass the firmware and select the tx rate in the host and which make operation better. > > ... and other issue is about transmit power limit, no chance to limit tx, > txpowmax does not work at all. Card transmits at full power. This is a firmware issue. Find a driver that supports changing the tx power and you will find a driver that works only for certain cards and certain revs of firmware. Feel free to supply patches for this; you can get them from the linux hostap driver for example. > > I know from my friend there exists some patch for the first issue, but CVS > does not contain it even in 7-CURRENT, let alone 6-STABLE. Becuase the person working on the patch received feedback that it did not work in all cases and has not had time to identify the issue. Sam