Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:59:59 +0930 From: "Martin Minkus" <diskiller@diskiller.net> To: "'Terry Lambert'" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards Message-ID: <006501c1f55e$623dc1f0$0200000a@bender> In-Reply-To: <3CD6B038.3E487B@mindspring.com>
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> > But it's a standard WaveLAN/Orinico card, which is what the > wi driver > > is intended for? > > > > I never had to worry about any of this when I had the old > white/bronze > > 2mbit wavelan cards, but with silver and gold cards, its > been nothing > > but fun and games.... > > I suppose I can understand wanting to control the data rate > manually because you can, rather than just being happy it > works at the highest data rate... > > The only thing I could suggest would be to contact the driver > author directly and/or sign an NDA and get the programming > docs yourself. I'm pretty sure Julian could answer yes/no > questions about the card speed setttings. > > -- Terry Actually, the reason I wanted to control the data rate was so I could force it to run at 11mbit. I put the 11mbit card in, and it would still only run at 2mbit! I was unhappy I had faster cards, but they still wouldn't work beyond the 2mbit of the old ones I had. That's what got me playing with all these options... Windows XP on my laptop would say the speed its communicating at; but that's actually the speed XP on the laptop is trasmitting at, not receiving. Installing the Orinico client manager, I could see the packets my laptop was sending to the FreeBSD host (100% at 11mbit), and the packets the FreeBSD host was sending back to the laptop (100% at 2mbit). Playing with those options changed what speed it would transmit to me. Oh well. At least I found the magic options that needed to be set to make the card work at 11mbit. Oh, and btw. Leaving it on auto (wicontrol -t 3) it would actually drop from 11mbit to 5.5mbit as the quality dropped off when I was further out of range. So at least auto works too :) Perhaps when I have some spare time I can go look into the wi driver. And perhaps your right, firmware changes on the orinoco cards are the cause of this; I have flashed mine to 8.1 (or whatever the latest firmware is, 8.something). My white wavelan cards were originally firmware 1.0 when I got them :) Martin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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