From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 20:16:00 2003 Return-Path: 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 B751C16A4D5 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC4243FE1 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com ([192.168.42.24]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hB24Eb6T016235; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:14:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FCC119F.6040906@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:14:23 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcos Biscaysaqu References: <3FC858F6.2090403@thepacific.net> <3FCBFBDD.6000404@centtech.com> <3FCC0097.2060900@thepacific.net> <3FCC0279.8010200@centtech.com> <3FCC068E.5060205@thepacific.net> <3FCC0C7C.8060306@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3FCC0C7C.8060306@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: re: ath0 lost connection] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 04:16:00 -0000 Eric Anderson wrote: [..snip..] >> ath_rate_ctl: 2M -> 1M (0 ok, 1 err, 1 retr) > > > If you are down to 1M, I think you may need to check signal strength > and such. I'd start with my testing near the AP (in sight of it at > least). Ok - I don't usually talk to myself (not in public anyway) - but here are my findings. When in 11b mode, everything works fine (I didn't try going to the edge of my coverage area though - too comfortable on my couch). When in 11g mode, I see the rate flap up and down between 48M and 24M, and each time it switches, it loses some packets in between modes. I just now manually set my client (FreeBSD of course) to 36M, and it seems to be holding up for now. Here's all I did: ifconfig ath0 media OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g Give that a try on the FreeBSD AP, and see if that helps at all (you may want to try the 11b modes, like: ifconfig ath0 media DS/2Mbps mode 11b or something.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------