From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 15:36:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FA916A420 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:36:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nakal@nurfuerspam.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9191043D5F for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:36:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nakal@nurfuerspam.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2006 15:36:14 -0000 Received: from p5090F5FE.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO klotz.local) [80.144.245.254] by mail.gmx.net (mp034) with SMTP; 21 Feb 2006 16:36:14 +0100 X-Authenticated: #989277 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (booky.local [192.168.0.2]) by klotz.local (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1LFa625002328; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:36:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nakal@nurfuerspam.de) Message-ID: <43FB3367.5060002@nurfuerspam.de> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:36:07 +0100 From: Martin User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JoaoBR References: <200602210719.15683.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200602210719.15683.joao@matik.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostap with atheros unusable on releng_6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:36:19 -0000 JoaoBR wrote: > Hi > configuring an atheros card for hostap in releng_6 seems to be unusable at all > at this time. RELENG_6 is the whole branch. What date has your kernel been built? > The card is running fine and can be configured as wished but after some time > it stops working I experience this when using 11g mode with hostap. The maximal performance I've seen was about 2,5MB/s transfering a file. But scp mostly gives up transfering large file and the log says something about wrong MAC address. There are also large delays sometimes and the average performance is a lot worse than in 11b mode. I'm using 11b at the moment and there are no problems. The speed I get is about 850kB/s. This is enough for my notebook. > using 11g this problem appears after some minutes or sometimes after booting > the machine it do not communicate, in 11b it stays mostly 20-40 minutes > working, due to this problems I still had no time to look at 11a Are you sure you don't have problems with DHCP or something like that, when using 11b? > running the whole ifconfig command again after ifconfig ath0 down brings it > back up for another similar period On older kernels I had to do this, too. But now wireless support seems to be stable. > changing the ath for a wi prism card using the exactly same configuration > everything works fine and stable You're lucky. My wi(4) never worked properly (around 5.0R) and I gave it back. I realized that FreeBSD hostap support wasn't stable at that time. Martin