ath: a few questions

[Kris Maglione]

Bruce M Simpson wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:40:21AM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote:
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>>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.
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>I'm running 5.3-STABLE as of last Wednesday and do not see this sysctl.
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>Please give version information (uname -a) when posting this kind of query,
>as it's next to impossible to give useful advice otherwise.
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Sorry about that. No uname -a, but it's the 5-STABLE from about a few 
days ago. The kernel config file is actually the (minimally modified) 
FreesBIE config file from a few months ago, but why is a long story.

>You should be able to 'tcpdump -i ath0 -y ieee802_11' to verify that you
>can capture 802.11 packets straight off the card.
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I have done that, and I have used kismet. My problem with kismet turned 
out to just be a wierd way that kismet reports things.

>I haven't experienced the problems with walls you mention.
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I use 11a. Like I said, there is no problem with windows. I forgot to 
mention that windows also reports higher data rates (54Mbps when FreeBSD 
reports 18Mbps, but I don't trust that, really. It reports up to 108Mbps 
in turbo, but the AP only supports 76). Also, through a wall or two, 
windows reports high signal, but I can't test that in freebsd, since the 
driver doesn't seem to support it.

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>>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.
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>dstumbler is for PRISM2 cards only.
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thanks, I had a feeling that it was, but I had to ask.

>BMS
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P.S. Please don't reply-all. When you do, I just get two duplicate 
messages right next to each other. They get sorted to the list's folder 
as long as they have the list as an address (hence the Reply-To header). 
Thanks.