From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 14:41:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7202416A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from arginine.spc.org (arginine.spc.org [195.206.69.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289B843D55 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bms@spc.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064CD6530A; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from arginine.spc.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arginine.spc.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 99302-02-17; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from empiric.dek.spc.org (unknown [62.55.106.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB4F651EE; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by empiric.dek.spc.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7DCC263A7; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:42:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:42:09 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Kris Maglione Message-ID: <20050118144209.GF3054@empiric.icir.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Maglione , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <41ED1FD5.8090401@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41ED1FD5.8090401@comcast.net> cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath: a few questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:58 -0000 On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:40:21AM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: > Second, according to CVS, hw.ath.outdoors was made tunable a year ago, but > sysctl says it's readonly when I try to change it. It's stuck at 1, which > seems to be a possible explanation for why it's indoor use sucks so badly > compared to the windows driver, especially through walls. I'm running 5.3-STABLE as of last Wednesday and do not see this sysctl. Please give version information (uname -a) when posting this kind of query, as it's next to impossible to give useful advice otherwise. You should be able to 'tcpdump -i ath0 -y ieee802_11' to verify that you can capture 802.11 packets straight off the card. I haven't experienced the problems with walls you mention. > Last, dstumbler doesn't work. It complains, something about ioctl. I don't > feel like booting the laptop to get the exact messate at the moment, but I > will later. dstumbler is for PRISM2 cards only. BMS