Wireless network card speed?

[Henrik W Lund]

Laszlo Antal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you sooo much for helping me out with my network card setup.
> Now I know it was a dumm questione.(/stand/sysinstall.. OFCOURSE).
> Anyway, I did something unbelievable!! I setup my built in wireless
> card!!! Sorry for all this info about my laptop.
>
> My only little problem is freebsd operate my card only 5Mps.
> The card can go upto 11Mps. Where can I change this settings?
>
> Thank you for all the help, this forum is the best.
>
> Laszlo 

Greetings!

You should check out the command wicontrol(8) if your WiFi card uses the 
wi(4) or ath(4) driver (I'm sure a similar tool exists for other 
wireless NIC drivers as well). In fact, here you go:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

Just type `wicontrol' into the box and hit "Submit".

Mind you, though, that the fact that the card is operating at 5Mbps 
could be due to the conditions where the laptop is located. The poorer 
the signal, the lower the speed (something Windows elegantly neglects to 
tell you, you only know if the connection is Excellent, Good, Low, Very 
Low or No Signal).

Hope this helps, and congrats on a sparkling new, improved (hell, I'd 
say sexy ;-) computer system!

-Henrik W Lund