wifi limited to 180KBps

[Chris Richards]

Hi Everyone,

I have installed a Netgear 802.11b (MA311) PCI card into my freebsd box
but I can't get it to transfer data faster than 180KBps in either
direction. I have tried the card in 2 freebsd boxes one running 5.1
Release and the other 5.4 Stable, no difference. I also ran trafshow on
wi0 and the traffic looks to come in bursts.

I have included my config below, can anyone see a problem?

Thank you.

-Chris

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wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0x40400000-0x40400fff irq 21 at device 10.0
on pci2
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9)
wi0: Ethernet address: 00:09:5b:69:15:58
wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps

su-2.05b# uname -a
FreeBSD spunky2.routemaster.net 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #3: Thu
Apr 21 01:03:43 EST 2005
chrisric at spunky2.routemaster.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPUNKY2  i386

su-2.05b# ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fe69:1558%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
        inet 10.10.11.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.11.255
        ether 00:09:5b:69:15:58
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps <hostap>
(DS/2Mbps <hostap>)
        status: associated
        ssid Spunky_AP 1:Spunky_AP
        stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
        channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
        wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

NIC serial number:                      [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name:                           [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ Spunky_AP ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ Spunky_AP ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [ Spunky_AP ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 00:09:5b:69:15:58 ]
Channel list:                           [ 7ff ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 6 ]
Current channel:                        [ 6 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 81 27 ]
dBm Coms Quality:                       [ 0 -73 -73 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Process 802.11b Frame:                  [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card:             [ 1 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 6 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:09:5b:69:15:58 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 11 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2312 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
PRI Identity:                           [ 21 0 1 1 ]
STA Identity:                           [ 31 9 1 4 ]
Card ID register:                       [ 8013 0 1 0 ]
Regulatory Domains:                     [ usa ]
Temperature Range:                      [ 1 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ Off ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]