possible issue with ath ?

[Waitman Gobble]

Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote ..
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Waitman Gobble <uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com> wrote:
> > Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote ..
> >> :-) Cool. 11n should just be working though!
> >>
> >>
> >> Adrian
> >>
> >
> > You definitely make a good point there, I totally agree.
> >
> 
> > OK, I think I have 11n running over 2.4GHz(11a?) but not 5GHz/11n -- Is This
> Not possible?
> > not sure going faster than 54M is happenin.
> 
> You have it wrong. 2.4GHz is 11b/g. 5GHz is 11a. 11n is orthogonal.
> 11n may be either 11gn or 11an. 'n' is the 802.3 implementation of
> MIMO, a method of improving performance by using multiple antennae and
> is not linked to specific frequencies.
-- 

Thanks, I totally appreciate it. I don't know alot about wireless / radio but I'm learning a bit. Hopefully I won't get kicked out of group for being ignorant.

I just read through the source code of ath9k (GNU/Linux) and then the FreeBSD ath driver code and picked up a few tidbits. I noticed in if_ath.c

#ifdef	ATH_ENABLE_11N

and then i remembered reading -

http://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2011/09/wireless-update-80211n-development.html

except I'm running 10-CURRENT so I mistakenly decided that didn't apply to me... oops.
..rebuilding the kernel now. Also going to try Adrian's recently posted patches for net80211 and ath to see what happens.




Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA