Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:05:36 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> Subject: Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed Message-ID: <200603091105.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200603082111.37010.joao@matik.com.br> References: <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <20060308235940.GA64762@intserv.int1.b.intern> <200603082111.37010.joao@matik.com.br>
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--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--
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