Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:01:09 +0100 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Federico Lorenzi <florenzi@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WPI Driver Support (WAS: Re: mode 11g, but 6Mbps) Message-ID: <46A62245.6030605@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3a386af20707240758i48c205d4kf6180ce6db3c05e5@mail.gmail.com> References: <3a386af20707240758i48c205d4kf6180ce6db3c05e5@mail.gmail.com>
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Federico Lorenzi wrote: > On 7/24/07, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:42 +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >> > Federico Lorenzi wrote: >> > > On 7/24/07, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> 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"
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