Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:50:20 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oops! (was: Support for Intel 5100 WiFi ?) Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmomb4Qm3sxQ-558FXiEe4ZJarYBRmvAKY-iT6-H5dXw_LQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <40913.1349905089@tristatelogic.com> References: <201210101938.01847.bschmidt@techwires.net> <40913.1349905089@tristatelogic.com>
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What's the output of 'ifconfig wlanX list sta'? Adrian On 10 October 2012 14:38, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Bernhard for all the additional info about the current state > of the iwn driver. > > I still do have a couple more small questions however. > > First it really does appear to me that even when my iwm0 device is > successfully connecting to an AP which has been set to do "N-only", > the information that is displayed via "ifconfig -a" is still showing > it as if it were communicating using 11g: > >>re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 >> options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC> >> ether 00:24:21:65:ad:a0 >> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> >> media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) >> status: no carrier >>iwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 >> ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18 >> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng >> status: associated >>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 >> options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> >> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa >> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 >> nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> >>wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 >> ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18 >> inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> inet6 fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb >> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/24Mbps mode 11ng >> status: associated >> ssid ronair2-1 channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g ht/40-) bssid c0:c1:c0:8b:4b:f3 > ^^^ >> country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF >> AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 450 bgscan >> bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 64 protmode CTS >> ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi wme >> roaming MANUAL > > Should I file a PR on this small problem/issue? > > Second, and again based on the output shown via "ifconfig -a", it > appears to me that even when it is in `N' mode (and even when my AP is > set to "auto" selection of either 40 or 20Mhz channels), the card > is never managing to get above 54Mbps, tops (and often considerably less, > as you can see above). > > So what am I doing wrong exactly? I had been trying some different equipment > earlier, but in the same locations and at the same distance, and in that case > I was routinely getting between 117Mbps and as much as 130Mbps... or anyway, > so said dd-wrt. > > Ultimately, I want to stream HD out to the laptop that has the Intel 5100 > in in, and thus, I really would like to get something above 54Mbps. And > it seems to me that this _should_ be possible. (In theory, I should be able > to get all of the way to 150Mbps, right?) So why can't I get my iwn0 device > (Intel 5100) under FreeBSD going anywhere near that fast? > > > Regards, > rfg > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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