hostap TX fix in 5.x [Fwd: Re: wi hostap speed]

[Jiri Mikulas]

Hello
Is there any progress, please ?
thanks
Jiri

Scott Pilz wrote:

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>	Well ... apparently I should have suspected people to CC me
>directly as I'm not on this list, but nonetheless I got some catching up
>to do now :) (please CC me if you'd like a response within this next week
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>	I'm open to suggestions - don't get me wrong, but I'm 99.9% sure
>that this is a WI driver issue with 5.x and not anything else. Others have
>reported this same problem over the last 6 months and I have seen
>absolutely no solutions their questions. Of course, it is very easy to say
>that it could be a MTU setting or interference, but I have personally
>tested over two dozen Prism 2.5 based cards using a variety of
>configurations, changes in settings, you name it - I've tried it
>(including trying to set the MTU lower).
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>	Something has changed since 4.9 that is causing hostap to run at
>half pace while uploading to associated stations.
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>	I guess what I'd really love to see is someone looking into the
>if_wi.c code and whatever else could be affecting this.. I'd be so bold as
>to offer $$ for such a fix (I am that desperate). I have, myself, spent
>countless hours, heck, weekends at a time, going through the code,
>removing this, changing that - with no success.. Then again, I do not
>claim to be a C programmer, much less someone that writes drivers.
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>	Just my two cents. My next step is to switch to Linux using the
>hostapd project, which I really don't want to do :<..Though, it is my
>understanding that OpenBSD doesn't have this problem - so I may try that
>if there simply will be no resolution to this matter.
>
>	Scott
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>On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
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>>There are many possibilities as to why you get certain speeds (or fail to).
>>There's the interface MTU size, RTS/CTS, WEP, whether your CPU can keep up
>>with WEP in hostap mode (yes, it does software decryption), whether the card
>>can keep up with WEP otherwise (yes, it can only do WEP at a slower speed
>>than it's otherwise capable of), TCP/IP options on the socket/in sysctl/in
>>the kernel compile, firewall differences, routing differences...
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>>Please provide much more information.  My (slightly older) -CURRENT sees up
>>to 4mbit/s with (software-WEP) or without WEP with MTU size of 1900.
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>>--
>>Brian Fundakowski Feldman                           \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\
>>  <> green at FreeBSD.org                               \  The Power to Serve! \
>> Opinions expressed are my own.                       \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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