From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 13 3: 0:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689AB37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:00:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk [195.10.240.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7079143F85 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:00:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd-current@epcdirect.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53B066B30 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lfarr (host-192.shorewood-epc.co.uk [192.168.15.192]) by mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C01E66B2F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:00:11 +0000 (GMT) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: Subject: Wireless Problems Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:00:22 -0000 Message-ID: <001101c2d34f$1b1c1ea0$c00fa8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by Shorewood EPC X-Razor-id: 231ffc03987d2d33f71a039a9faeeb8fad1d12b5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a hostap box that lives under my stairs with: wi0: mem 0xffbef000-0xffbeffff irq 11 at device 11.0 = on pci0 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:05:5d:ee:23:57 wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.0.7), Station (1.3.5) wi0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ifpi0: port 0xff80-0xff9f mem 0xffbeec00-0xffbeec1f = irq 10 at device 17.0 on pci0 And I've also tried: wi0: mem 0xffbef000-0xffbeffff irq 11 at device 11.0 = on pci0 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:09:5b:11:fa:2d wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.0.7), Station (1.3.6) wi0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps Initialising with the line: ifconfig_wi0=3D"inet 192.168.10.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 media = DS/11Mbps mediaopt hostap ssid gate channel 6" The problem I have is that the most I can get out of it is 502k/sec on a laptop, and 192k on a P4 2.4Ghz next to it. Messages is full of: Feb 12 22:38:03 gate kernel: wi0: tx failed, retry limit exceeded Feb 12 22:38:04 gate last message repeated 7 times It's fairly recent: FreeBSD gate.bka.epcdirect.co.uk 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Sat = Feb 8 11:31:01 GMT 2003 Any ideas anyone? Or am I expecting too much at 192k/second from hostap? The server is less than 6 feet away from the PC's. Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message