AR9227 hostap on FreeBSD 10-current

[Adrian Chadd]

It says HT40, so it's 11n.

Do 'ifconfig wlan0 list sta', see what speeds the stations are at.

Do 'sysctl dev.ath.0.sample_stats=1' and check dmesg, see whether it's
TXing using MCS or legacy rates.



Adrian


On 18 July 2012 15:53, Kim Culhan <w8hdkim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Been wanting to check out 802.11n operation, what with all the effort
> Adrian, Bernhard and
> others have been putting into the project ..Seems its really getting
> 'up to speed'.
>
> When AR9227-based cards became available locally at a good price I
> snarfed a couple.
>
> One card is running in a FreeBSD 10-current machine in hostap mode and
> I'm trying to
> figure out whether its connected in .11n mode.
>
> ifconfig wlan0 shows:
>
> wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether f8:d1:11:39:3d:e5
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap>
>         status: running
>         ssid ath channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g ht/40-) bssid f8:d1:11:39:3d:e5
>         regdomain 32924 country CN indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
>         privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit
>         txpower 20 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
>         shortgi wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>
>
> Looking at the section with: 11g ht/40-
>
> Does this indicate 11g mode?
>
> The card on the client end is the same type hardware about 12 feet
> away, signal strength
> should not be a problem :)
>
> -kim
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