Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:40:23 +0300 From: Yury Michurin <yury.michurin@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wireless cards Message-ID: <AANLkTikQe_drYGGv6gYFZw1AlYNxmZTxxBn_o9gM81xK@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100526013712.GA67116@chanas.pair.com> References: <20100526013712.GA67116@chanas.pair.com>
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Hi, I'm using D-Link DWA-547 for a couple of months now in hostap mode and it seems to work grate. It's a PCI card with atheros chipset. Yury. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:37 AM, J. Altman <freebsd-announce@chthonic.com>wrote: > Greetings... > > uname -a > FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 > #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010 > root@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 > > My Netgear WG311T, with an Atheros chipset, seems to be at its > end. The box is about thirty feet from the WAP, almost directly in > line through an open door: > > --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- > 27 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 22.2% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.811/9.526/35.551/8.051 ms > > I see this: > > dmesg | grep "wlan0: link state changed to" | wc > 9 54 296 > > Where "up" or "down" follows "to" for a box with this uptime: up 2:04 > > Over several days, this can occur hundreds of times; and often, > ifconfig shows this: DS/1 Mbps or similar; then it will bounce back to > OFDM; bounce around between OFDM bandwidths: then eventually fall to > DS. This is suboptimal. > > So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no > luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who > makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I > just want it to work. > > Thanks for any recommendations; and best regards, > > Joe > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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