From owner-freebsd-net Mon May 6 1:56:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.airnet.com.au (mail.airnet.com.au [202.174.32.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 742AA37B407 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 01:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19566 invoked from network); 6 May 2002 08:56:19 -0000 Received: from ppp411.ar1.adl1.airnet.com.au (HELO bender) (202.174.35.155) by mail.airnet.com.au with SMTP; 6 May 2002 08:56:19 -0000 From: "Martin Minkus" To: "'Terry Lambert'" Cc: , Subject: RE: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:25:46 +0930 Message-ID: <005b01c1f4db$e3563f20$0200000a@bender> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3621.0 In-Reply-To: <3CD643F6.33680AA3@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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.... -----Original Message----- From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com] Sent: Monday, 6 May 2002 18:21 To: Martin Minkus Cc: freebsd-network@freebsd.org; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards Martin Minkus wrote: > > Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit [ ... data rate controls on the ifconfig or wicontrol command lines tend to result in unexpexted -- frequently 11Mbit rather than lower -- measured speeds ... ] I guess you will have to "suffer" with higher than expected data rates? 8-) 8-). Actually, I think it's because the card you are using has a different set of mappings than the firmware for which the commands were intended, and the driver you are using (wi0) "happens" to work with the card, despite the different firmware. but the "magic" features don't. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message