From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 21:38:13 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 0A68616A4CF for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.ts.co.nz (sage.tasman.net [202.49.92.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B8D43F75 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcos@thepacific.net) Received: from sage.ts.co.nz (sage.ts.co.nz [202.49.92.1]) by sage.ts.co.nz (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB25dAR0008347; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:39:11 +1300 Received: from thepacific.net (gateway-nelson.thepacific.net [202.49.95.33]) by sage.ts.co.nz (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB25avaD007952; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:36:58 +1300 Message-ID: <3FCC2500.9080301@thepacific.net> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:37:04 +1300 From: Marcos Biscaysaqu Organization: ThePacific.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson , freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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> <3FCC119F.6040906@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3FCC119F.6040906@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:38:13 -0000 Hi There Fixing the speed on DS/11Mbps corrected one of the debug errors (ath_rate_ctl: 2M -> 1M (0 ok, 1 err, 1 retr)) but I still with this 2 : I think this error (ath_start: encapsulation failure) its cousing Ierrs and the Oerrs on the netstat, becouse is doing it all the time same with the Ierrs and Oerrs ath_calibrate: channel 2437/e0 ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure ath_start: encapsulation failure thnaks Eric Anderson wrote: > 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 > > > -- Marcos Biscaysaqu Systems Administrator ThePacific.Net Ltd.