Wireless NICs on 7.2

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 20:14:43 UTC 2009


On 7/2/09, Robert Hall <rjhjr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul B. Mahol<onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/2/09, Robert Hall <rjhjr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And what about TX/RX signal?
>>>
>>> I don't know where to look for that. :)
>>
>> It is part of scan output.
>
> I don't remember seeing that in the output. I'll put the Linksys back
> in the FBSD box and look for it. Does it have another name? I can't
> find it on the ifconfig man page.
>
> On the XP box, the Linksys utility says that the transmit rate is 12
> Mbps and the receive rate is 5.5 Mbps.
>
> When I move the Linksys NIC to the FBSD box, I get:
> $ ifconfig ral0 list scan
> SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> livingroom      00:13:10:b9:e7:d6    6   54M -93:-95  100 E

93 is too low.
>
> I think the "54M" is what you're asking for? I looked in man ifconfig
> and couldn't find TX or RX so I'm guessing that you're asking about
> the rate at which data is passed.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>


-- 
Paul


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