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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2001 01:11:21 -0700
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To:        Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: WaveLAN: What the heck is TX rate 8 ??!
Message-ID:  <20010520011121.G7554@seven.alameda.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010520001128.S50617-100000@localhost>; from dburr@borg-cube.com on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:14:51AM -0700
References:  <20010520001128.S50617-100000@localhost>

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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:14:51AM -0700, Donald Burr of Borg wrote:
> [ follow up to -questions please ]
> 
> While messing around with WaveLAN tonight, I noticed something highly
> unusual when running wicontrol:
> 
> [dburr@borg-cube:116 ~]% /usr/sbin/wicontrol
> NIC serial number:                      [ 99UT12373929 ]
> Station name:                           [ DATABANK ]
> SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ FreeBSD IBSS ]
> [...]
> TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
> TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 5 ]
                                          ^^^^^ You mean that ?


> [...]
> Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
> 
> What the hell is TX rate 8?!!  I've never heard of this before, and There
> is no mention of it in the wicontrol(8) or wi(4) man pages.  Actually,
> wicontrol(8) does mention the tx rate settings:
> 
>      -i iface -t tx rate
>                  Set the transmit rate of the specified interface.  The
> legal
>                  values for the transmit rate vary depending on whether
> the
>                  interface is a standard WaveLAN/IEEE or a WaveLAN/IEEE
> Turbo
>                  adapter.  The standard NICs support a maximum transmit
> rate
>                  of 2Mbps while the turbo NICs support a maximum speed of
>                  6Mbps.  The following table shows the legal transmit rate
>                  settings and the corresponding transmit speeds:
> 
>                        TX rate     NIC speed
>                        1           Fixed Low (1Mbps)
>                        2           Fixed Standard (2Mbps)
>                        3           Auto Rate Select (High)

Card is set to auto rate selection.

>                        4           Fixed Medium (4Mbps)
>                        5           Fixed High (6Mbps)

And has selected 6Mbps. That is how I would read the "TX rate (selection)"
and "TX rate (actual speed)"

>                        6           Auto Rate Select (Standard)
>                        7           Auto Rate Select (Medium)
> 
> But, as you can see, there is no mention of the value "8" anywhere here...
> 
> So what is it??!
> 
> If it matters, my network is composed entirely of Bronze Turbo cards (6
> Mbit, no encryption), all of which are upgraded to the latest firmware
> (7.something).
> 
> Any advice welcome.  Thanks!
> -- 
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Regards, Ulf.

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