From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 16:01:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F7516A41A for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:01:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f01:ffff::121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FE613C428 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from prawn.unsane.co.uk (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6OG058T021129 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:00:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <46A62245.6030605@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:01:09 +0100 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Federico Lorenzi References: <3a386af20707240758i48c205d4kf6180ce6db3c05e5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a386af20707240758i48c205d4kf6180ce6db3c05e5@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tom Evans , User Questions Subject: Re: WPI Driver Support (WAS: Re: mode 11g, but 6Mbps) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:01:18 -0000 Federico Lorenzi wrote: > On 7/24/07, Tom Evans wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:42 +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >> > Federico Lorenzi wrote: >> > > On 7/24/07, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >> > >> Hi List, >> > >> I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG adapter using the wpi0 driver >> > >> connecting to an access point using the 802.11g mode. >> > >> # ifconfig wpi0 mode 11g >> > >> # ifconfig wpi0 >> > >> ... >> > >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g >> (OFDM/6Mbps) >> > >> ... >> > >> >> > >> Can anyone explain why I see OFDM/6Mbps instead of OFDM/54Mbps >> (or at >> > >> least 19Mbps if you mean the actual throughput?) >> > > It could depend on a few things, first off remember that it's a >> highly >> > > experimental driver at >> > > this stage, and don't mean to be stating the obvious, but are you >> > > actually close enough to >> > > the AP to get 54mbps? Windows says 54 / 11 no matter what speed it is >> > > running at. >> > >> > Hi Federico, >> > >> > Actually I'm 4 meters away from the AP. >> > I know that wpi is still in pre-alpha state ;-) >> > >> > Tnx >> > >> >> Heh, at least you have some connectivity - mine is still using none! >> >> none0@pci8:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086 rev=0x02 >> hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >> device = '3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller' >> class = network >> >> Driver either fails to initialise, or panic's my -CURRENT laptop :) >> >> I'd think its highly likely that performance issues are due to >> pre-release quality of the driver. > I have the same problem too, which forces me to use a 2 year old atheros > pcmcia card. I take it you are trying the perforce version right? I don't > suppose you could give me what error message you get so we could > 'compare'. Mine is something about not being able to allocate memory. > Heh for me I can now load the driver, and even associate with a non encrypted access point, but i cant pass traffic and it soom panics the machine (keep meaning to give Benjamin Close some debug output to see if he can help but I havent time at the moment.) I'm using the version from the latest tarball (http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20070615-wpi-freebsd-7.0-current.tgz) It seems to actually be the latest version (I think the date he put on its wrong ;) Vince > Cheers > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"