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Date:      Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:42:30 +0100
From:      Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is 802.11a supposed to work with wpi?
Message-ID:  <3a142e750912270242sdeeeb96hce483958273f5f26@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B36E491.3000204@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4B36D550.2050006@FreeBSD.org> <4B36E491.3000204@FreeBSD.org>

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On 12/27/09, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> I have the infamous Intel 3945ABG, and an access point that does
>> 802.11a. The card works fine with WPA in Win XP, even with a wall or
>> two in between me and the AP.
>>
>> With FreeBSD I cannot get a link in 802.11a even with no encryption
>> and standing in the same room as the AP. Is it supposed to work?
>
> Thanks to Attilio I got my only other 11a card working and it can sync
> up with the AP even with WPA. It's not a strong signal, but it works
> just fine:
>
> SSID/MESH ID   CHAN    RATE     S:N     INT    CAPS
> my11assid       52     54M    -91:-96   100    EP   WPA
>
> So this definitely appears to be a wpi issue.

If you enable bootverbose (via loader or sysctl) what wpi says?

-- 
Paul B Mahol



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