From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 9 00:35:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D4516A420 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 00:35:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FCD43D46 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 00:35:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k290Zh4D072384 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:05:49 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:05:36 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <20060308235940.GA64762@intserv.int1.b.intern> <200603082111.37010.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200603082111.37010.joao@matik.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3263570.IfxZPSFd7I"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603091105.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.272 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: JoaoBR Subject: Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:35:59 -0000 --nextPart3263570.IfxZPSFd7I Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 09 March 2006 10:41, JoaoBR wrote: > > It looks like "man ath" does not list all media and mediaopt values. > > sure not because there are lots of different cards out with different > mediaopts so you need to read your hw-manual or your card can answer > ifconfig -m ath0 In any case I imagine there is no point forcing it to use 54Mbit - it will= =20 negotiate the highest speed it can manage based on signal strength and=20 hardware support (for the AP and the card) automatically. I suspect forcing 54Mbit will either not work at all (because the signal is= n't=20 strong enough or your hardware doesn't support it), or it will negotiate a= =20 speed up to 54Mbit (which would result in no functional change). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3263570.IfxZPSFd7I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBED3ha5ZPcIHs/zowRAhTMAKCrjdmGOPLaaAjXRSaqskZAneig0wCfUrzS GvcHNJEK6/VxNG8JV5dZfqQ= =UuCb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3263570.IfxZPSFd7I--