wifi limited to 180KBps
Carl Gustavsson
carl at thegoodone.mine.nu
Sun May 1 03:38:59 PDT 2005
Chris Richards wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have installed a Netgear 802.11b (MA311) PCI card into my freebsd box
>but I can't get it to transfer data faster than 180KBps in either
>direction. I have tried the card in 2 freebsd boxes one running 5.1
>Release and the other 5.4 Stable, no difference. I also ran trafshow on
>wi0 and the traffic looks to come in bursts.
>
>I have included my config below, can anyone see a problem?
>
>Thank you.
>
>-Chris
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0x40400000-0x40400fff irq 21 at device 10.0
>on pci2
>wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
>wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9)
>wi0: Ethernet address: 00:09:5b:69:15:58
>wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>
>su-2.05b# uname -a
>FreeBSD spunky2.routemaster.net 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #3: Thu
>Apr 21 01:03:43 EST 2005
>chrisric at spunky2.routemaster.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPUNKY2 i386
>
>su-2.05b# ifconfig wi0
>wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fe69:1558%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> inet 10.10.11.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.11.255
> ether 00:09:5b:69:15:58
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps <hostap>
>(DS/2Mbps <hostap>)
> status: associated
> ssid Spunky_AP 1:Spunky_AP
> stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
> channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
> rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
> wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
>
>NIC serial number: [ 99SA01000000 ]
>Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
>SSID for IBSS creation: [ Spunky_AP ]
>Current netname (SSID): [ Spunky_AP ]
>Desired netname (SSID): [ Spunky_AP ]
>Current BSSID: [ 00:09:5b:69:15:58 ]
>Channel list: [ 7ff ]
>IBSS channel: [ 6 ]
>Current channel: [ 6 ]
>Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 81 27 ]
>dBm Coms Quality: [ 0 -73 -73 ]
>Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
>Process 802.11b Frame: [ Off ]
>Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 1 ]
>Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 6 ]
>MAC address: [ 00:09:5b:69:15:58 ]
>TX rate (selection): [ 11 ]
>TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ]
>RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2312 ]
>Create IBSS: [ Off ]
>Access point density: [ 1 ]
>Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ]
>Max sleep time: [ 100 ]
>PRI Identity: [ 21 0 1 1 ]
>STA Identity: [ 31 9 1 4 ]
>Card ID register: [ 8013 0 1 0 ]
>Regulatory Domains: [ usa ]
>Temperature Range: [ 1 ]
>WEP encryption: [ Off ]
>TX encryption key: [ 1 ]
>Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ]
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Hi
I have the same problem, its a bug in the hostap-driver that limit it to
2Mbps.
See this:
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps <hostap> (DS/2Mbps <hostap>)
You have declared that you want 11 Mbps but it sets to maximum 2Mbps.
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