Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:24:01 -0500 From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ath driver transmit power? Message-ID: <41EC5721.8030208@comcast.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Is there a way to adjust the transmit power of the atheros driver? I just bought a netgear WG511U (because I heard good things about the atheros driver), but in 802.11a mode, it drops a lot of packets (27% according to ping -f, ping -i .2 has results as low as 6% periodically). Anyway, windows seems to show better signal, though I can't test throughput at the moment, since the windows isakmp system doesn't seem to like racoon very much. The windows driver even detects a neighbors 11g network, where kismet doesn't. Does anyone know of a way to adjust the power of the transmitter/sensitivity of the reciever on the freebsd driver? If I have to, I'll build the ndisulator, but I'd really prefer not to, as you might imagine. I have no intention of running windows just for wireless, with transfer rates as bad as they are in FreeBSD (usually < 2bps no matter how close to the AP I am), I may have to switch to linux (this is only slightly better than windows) or netbsd if I can't get it up to speed. Thanks. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB7FcmmcXjc1XBrAQRAi4oAJ4q/G7wZl48KZlYV5IqW6RE0MhwqACdGncW sbWQicLy0OqBglN8UhFZsdQ= =mTI6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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