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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