Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:36:07 +0100 From: Martin <nakal@nurfuerspam.de> To: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostap with atheros unusable on releng_6? Message-ID: <43FB3367.5060002@nurfuerspam.de> In-Reply-To: <200602210719.15683.joao@matik.com.br> References: <200602210719.15683.joao@matik.com.br>
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JoaoBR wrote: > Hi > configuring an atheros card for hostap in releng_6 seems to be unusable at all > at this time. RELENG_6 is the whole branch. What date has your kernel been built? > The card is running fine and can be configured as wished but after some time > it stops working I experience this when using 11g mode with hostap. The maximal performance I've seen was about 2,5MB/s transfering a file. But scp mostly gives up transfering large file and the log says something about wrong MAC address. There are also large delays sometimes and the average performance is a lot worse than in 11b mode. I'm using 11b at the moment and there are no problems. The speed I get is about 850kB/s. This is enough for my notebook. > using 11g this problem appears after some minutes or sometimes after booting > the machine it do not communicate, in 11b it stays mostly 20-40 minutes > working, due to this problems I still had no time to look at 11a Are you sure you don't have problems with DHCP or something like that, when using 11b? > running the whole ifconfig command again after ifconfig ath0 down brings it > back up for another similar period On older kernels I had to do this, too. But now wireless support seems to be stable. > changing the ath for a wi prism card using the exactly same configuration > everything works fine and stable You're lucky. My wi(4) never worked properly (around 5.0R) and I gave it back. I realized that FreeBSD hostap support wasn't stable at that time. Martin
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