From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 10 05:27:48 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 5074B16A420 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:27:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgerow@afflictions.org) Received: from mail.afflictions.org (asylum.afflictions.org [64.7.134.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47AE43D49 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:27:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgerow@afflictions.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB00378C79 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:35:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.afflictions.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pandora.afflictions.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23232-08 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:35:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from dementia.afflictions.org (dementia [172.19.206.56]) by mail.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E3078C78 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:35:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by dementia.afflictions.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 34B941C080F; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:27:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:27:40 -0500 From: Damian Gerow To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060310052740.GD31158@afflictions.org> References: <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <200603091105.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060310033752.GB31158@afflictions.org> <200603101540.21112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603101540.21112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-PGP-Fingerprint: B3D7 D901 A53A 1A99 BFD6 E6DF 9F3B 742B C288 9CC9 X-PGP-Key: 0xC2889CC9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pandora.afflictions.org 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: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:27:48 -0000 Thus spake Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@gsoft.com.au) [10/03/06 00:19]: : > Okay, this has me a bit curious, so I dug into it a bit more: : > : > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS : > linksys 00:06:25:7b:25:3d 6 11M 35:0 100 E : > MYSSID 00:12:17:85:9a:3b 11 54M 39:0 100 E : > wahoo62 00:13:46:47:0f:0e 11 54M 4:0 100 EPS : > : > I'd have thought that a S:N of 39:0 wouldn't be all that weak, no? Looking : > at a post by Sam this past August, he calls 30:0 "very strong", though that : > was for an 802.11b link. I'd think that the higher the number, the : > stronger the signal. Is the above too weak to handle a full 54Mbps link? : : Which SSID? MYSSID? : The linksys one looks like b only. : The other 2 look like g. MYSSID. It's the one I posted about originally. linksys is definitely b only. : Are you sure your card supports g? It may be able to see a g AP but only : connects and b speeds. Yep. It's an AR5212: ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath0: mem 0xd8100000-0xd810ffff irq 28 at device 4.0 on pci10 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b5:20:71:ed ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6 : What does ifconfig -m ath0 say? The full text (as it's unsurprisingly long) is up at: Here's the bits I'm going to assume you're specifically interested in: ----- ath0: flags=28943 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe20:71ed%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.132.146 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.132.255 ether 00:0f:b5:20:71:ed media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: associated supported media: media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt monitor media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt adhoc media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt monitor media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt adhoc media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt monitor media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt adhoc media DS/11Mbps mode 11b media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt monitor media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt flag0 mediaopt adhoc media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt adhoc media autoselect mode autoselect ssid "" channel 5 authmode OPEN privacy OFF NULL 1:40-bit NULL 2:40-bit NULL 3:40-bit NULL 4:40-bit txpowmax 30 protmode CTS burst bintval 100 ----- - Damian