Date: 29 Aug 2002 19:40:15 -0000 From: <madcow@bootstrap.net> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: hostap + 4.6-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020829194015.64870.qmail@wm0.netfirms.com>
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> Coffee cans on poles ;-)... what have polish people got to
> do with this apart from being good conductors? Cheap polish and
> tram conductor humour ;-)
>Gavin
I was thinking orchestra conductor :)
But anyway...
I am relatively new to FreeBSD; I hope that you will forgive my
potentially doltish questions.
I am running 4.6-RELEASE with a Linksys Prism-3 card in hostap mode.
My throughput from a Win2K client with a Lucent Silver card is
dreadful. Netstumbler show that the connection is dropping (up to)
dozens of times per minute. I've seen reports that going to 4.6-
STABLE might or might not fix the throughput problem.
I don't see any coffee cans (or poles for that matter), though I do
live in an apartment complex. I don't know if there are any 2.4ghz
phones near.
Is the Prism-3 chipset the trouble?
I use the Win2K box to connect to other networks (Cisco in
particular) without trouble.
Can anyone suggest some steps to take to troubleshoot this? I have
included output from wicontrol/ifconfig/dmesg for your perusal...
Thanks!!
Katherine
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kate# wicontrol
NIC serial number: [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name: [ kat_base ]
SSID for IBSS creation: [ myssid ]
Current netname (SSID): [ myssid ]
Desired netname (SSID): [ myssid ]
Current BSSID: [ 00:06:25:a9:88:3a ]
Channel list: [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel: [ 3 ]
Current channel: [ 3 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 81 27 ]
Promiscuous mode: [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 6 ]
MAC address: [ 00:06:25:a9:88:3a ]
TX rate (selection): [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS: [ Off ]
Access point density: [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ]
Max sleep time: [ 100 ]
WEP encryption: [ Off ]
TX encryption key: [ 1 ]
Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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kate# ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fea9:883a%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
ether 00:06:25:a9:88:3a
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap>
(DS/2Mbps <hos)
status: associated
ssid myssid 1:myssid
stationname kat_base
channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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kate# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #2: Wed May 8 11:37:59 PDT 2002
xxxx@kate.xxxxxxx.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/WIFI
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium/P55C (132.63-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping = 3
Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
real memory = 84017152 (82048K bytes)
config> di sio1
config> di ppc0
config> di sn0
config> di lnc0
config> di ie0
config> di fe0
config> di ed0
config> di cs0
config> di bt0
config> di ata1
config> di aic0
config> di aha0
config> di adv0
config> en pcic1
config> po pcic1 0x3e2
config> ir pcic1 0
config> iom pcic1 0xd4000
config> f pcic1 0
config> q
avail memory = 76345344 (74556K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc052e000.
Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc052e09c.
Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 1 entries at 0xc00f97e0
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <Chips & Technologies 65554 SVGA controller> at 4.0
ohci0: <NEC uPD 9210 USB controller> mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff irq
11 at device0
usb0: OHCI version 1.0
usb0: <NEC uPD 9210 USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
isa0: <ISA bus> on motherboard
fdc0: <NEC 765 or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
isa0
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
pcic0: <Intel i82365SL-A/B> at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 on isa0
pcic0: Polling mode
pccard0: <PC Card bus (classic)> on pcic0
pccard1: <PC Card bus (classic)> on pcic0
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
IP Filter: v3.4.27 initialized. Default = block all, Logging =
enabled
pccard: card inserted, slot 0
pccard: card inserted, slot 1
ad0: 1382MB <ST91430AG> [2808/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
ep0: <3Com 3C574> at port 0x240-0x25f irq 3 flags 0x1 slot 0 on
pccard0
ep0: Ethernet address 00:10:4b:f3:fb:7c
wi0 at port 0x280-0x2bf irq 5 flags 0x10000 slot 1 on pccard1
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:06:25:a9:88:3a
wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.04
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 146/3c; last status 403c
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 146/3c; last status 403c
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 146/3c; last status 403c
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 146/3c; last status 403c
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 146/3c; last status 403c
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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kate# cat pccard.conf
#------------------------
# IRQ Summary
#
# 1 atkbdc0 9
# 2 reserved 10
# 3 11 ohci0
# 4 sio0 12 psm0
# 5 13 reserved
# 6 fdc0 14 ata0
# 7 15
# 8 reserver 16
irq 3 5 7 9 10 15 16
# 3Com Fast Etherlink 3C574TX
card "3Com" "3C574-TX Fast EtherLink PC Card"
config auto "ep" ? 0x1
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
insert sh /etc/lanstart.sh
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
# Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE
card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
config 0x1 "wi" ?
# config auto "wi" ?
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
insert sh /etc/wifi.sh
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
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kate# cat wifi.sh
#wifi.sh
wicontrol -s "kat_base"
# station name
wicontrol -f 3
#channel
wicontrol -p 6
# 1=bss
# 3=adhoc
# 6=hostap
# BSS mode, clients must associate with an access point,
wicontrol -c 0
# IBSS mode, an extention of BSS mode.
#wicontrol -e 1
# Enables WEP security
ifconfig wi0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid myssid
mediaopt hostap
dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd.conf
kate#
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Katherine G.
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