Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:42:09 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath: a few questions Message-ID: <20050118144209.GF3054@empiric.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <41ED1FD5.8090401@comcast.net> References: <41ED1FD5.8090401@comcast.net>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:40:21AM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: > Second, according to CVS, hw.ath.outdoors was made tunable a year ago, but > sysctl says it's readonly when I try to change it. It's stuck at 1, which > seems to be a possible explanation for why it's indoor use sucks so badly > compared to the windows driver, especially through walls. I'm running 5.3-STABLE as of last Wednesday and do not see this sysctl. Please give version information (uname -a) when posting this kind of query, as it's next to impossible to give useful advice otherwise. You should be able to 'tcpdump -i ath0 -y ieee802_11' to verify that you can capture 802.11 packets straight off the card. I haven't experienced the problems with walls you mention. > Last, dstumbler doesn't work. It complains, something about ioctl. I don't > feel like booting the laptop to get the exact messate at the moment, but I > will later. dstumbler is for PRISM2 cards only. BMS
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