hostap with atheros unusable on releng_6?

[JoaoBR]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 12:36, Martin wrote:
>
> RELENG_6 is the whole branch. What date has your kernel been built?
>

6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #2: Sun Feb 19 12:45:27 BRT 2006

sources are same date

> 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.
>

no problem at all, I get full througput in any mode as long as the device is 
working, it is not a performance issue, it stops rx/tx


>
> Are you sure you don't have problems with DHCP or something like that,
> when using 11b?
>

hum, what dhcp should have to do if the radio works or not?


>
> 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.
>

not all wi devices are capable to do hostap


João








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