ath: a few questions

[Bruce M Simpson]

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