ath driver and wg311t
John Kennedy
jk at jk.homeunix.net
Wed Jul 28 20:51:12 PDT 2004
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:53:45AM +1000, Geoff Roberts wrote:
> > On Monday 26 July 2004 07:35 am, Geoff Roberts wrote:
> > > I've got a Netgear WG311T (Atheros chip) card in my FreeBSD current
> > > machine. I'm trying to set it up as an access point. ...
> > > The card at the other end is a netgear WG111 (USB) on windows XP.
> >
> > Your problem is likely due to use of 11g. ?The existing net80211 code in
> > FreeBSD is missing proper 11g support. ?Try forcing the ap to use only 11b
> > and see if things work.
>
> The answer is yes and no. The first time I forced the AP to llb the WG111
> connected OK. I've since been rebooting both the W2K machine and FreeBSD
> machine over the last day or so and there is still a lot of unsupported auth
> 1 messages. Sometimes they eventually connect and sometimes not.
As a client, at least, I don't seem to be having any trouble with 11g.
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fee8:14e1%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.0.201 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether zzzz
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps)
status: associated
ssid xxxx 1:yyyy
channel 11 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
wepkey 1:104-bit
[ifconfig -m ath0 | grep '11g$']
media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
media OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g
media OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
media OFDM/24Mbps mode 11g
media OFDM/18Mbps mode 11g
media OFDM/12Mbps mode 11g
media OFDM/9Mbps mode 11g
media OFDM/6Mbps mode 11g
media DS/11Mbps mode 11g
media DS/5.5Mbps mode 11g
media DS/2Mbps mode 11g
media DS/1Mbps mode 11g
media autoselect mode 11g
I'm not seeing a 108Mbps mode available, but haven't got an AP to sync
with yet anyway.
Note that I'm a client, not an AP. FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #18.
[from dmesg]
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf7010000-0xf701ffff irq 20 at device 8.0 on pci2
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
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