From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 14:40:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E749D106564A for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 14:40:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yury.michurin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF9C8FC15 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 14:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so31206wyf.13 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 07:40:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=1q1r0LoepP8v02uUv+ja3zUDqZfr7LF40gDg7dDgUY0=; b=XOdxdjqeKfRUVsQ+7m3y/Oo66snC/X07QGNok+BbOqJm55K4mPwE3mh2qzJtq1/dAC vT7CpfAenllcaP2bqBUwr/jvMDpH3byL6LjqH8tn0sgWJUB5UXNtLI4O9n9gXk+Df8J9 sAcme3mRiROHJNEfcLforqFCd63OtQNKFN1lM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=fDq5JcadaMTNquHWKQ5xBbxAySL4ALbGCG2tbjBS7w79o1o+L6BhaISgONTrLFAaav 5/FA5KIqQlX4AMUdbYocUcl0524YuaX/L2H9oI0v7bv9MV7Cz/hjVCJa05YQEFh2yOOB Ai5uIPwHcYK5lC7X+oC0Pfd93IOfjflYU0PpU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.161.131 with SMTP id w3mr3394172wek.109.1275230423290; Sun, 30 May 2010 07:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.37.140 with HTTP; Sun, 30 May 2010 07:40:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100526013712.GA67116@chanas.pair.com> References: <20100526013712.GA67116@chanas.pair.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:40:23 +0300 Message-ID: From: Yury Michurin To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Wireless cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 14:40:25 -0000 Hi, I'm using D-Link DWA-547 for a couple of months now in hostap mode and it seems to work grate. It's a PCI card with atheros chipset. Yury. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:37 AM, J. Altman wrote: > Greetings... > > uname -a > FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 > #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010 > root@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 > > My Netgear WG311T, with an Atheros chipset, seems to be at its > end. The box is about thirty feet from the WAP, almost directly in > line through an open door: > > --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- > 27 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 22.2% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.811/9.526/35.551/8.051 ms > > I see this: > > dmesg | grep "wlan0: link state changed to" | wc > 9 54 296 > > Where "up" or "down" follows "to" for a box with this uptime: up 2:04 > > Over several days, this can occur hundreds of times; and often, > ifconfig shows this: DS/1 Mbps or similar; then it will bounce back to > OFDM; bounce around between OFDM bandwidths: then eventually fall to > DS. This is suboptimal. > > So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no > luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who > makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I > just want it to work. > > Thanks for any recommendations; and best regards, > > Joe > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >