Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:57:38 +0200 From: Jiri Mikulas <konfer@mikulas.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: hostap TX fix in 5.x [Fwd: Re: wi hostap speed] Message-ID: <409117E2.5000603@mikulas.com>
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hello Sorry for long email ;) Jiri -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: wi hostap speed Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 01:37:05 +0100 From: Jiri Mikulas <konfer@mikulas.com> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> References: <3FFDE3A1.5090908@mikulas.com> <200401081533.27278.sam@errno.com> hello again ;) > >Let me test here. Fixing the speed is meaningless for hostap mode. > > > I don't want to use fixed speed exactly, but only try to find, where should be problem, because if I have media adhoc, it's running well on 11MBPs >Can you tell me what device you're using on the station and what tool you're >using to test with (e.g. netperf). > > > I'v used wget on linux client with IBM wifi card with Prism2.5 chipset (sorry i dont know exact numbers of this card) oposite to one AP (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #6: Thu Jan 8 17:29:53 CET 2004) with the same IBM card in hostap mode wi1: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xe6001000-0xe6001fff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 wi1: 802.11 address: 00:10:c6:18:52:8e wi1: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi1: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.1), Station (1.7.4) wi1: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps and i t look like this: --00:44:33-- http://10.27.0.2/5.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso => `/dev/null' Navazuje se spojení s 10.27.0.2:80... connected. HTTP požadavek odeslán, program čeká na odpověď ... 200 OK Délka: 645,169,152 [text/plain] 0% [ ] 1,484,200 157.65K/s ETA 1:06:27 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ than I tried similar test with two BSD boxes, the same BSD as on the first test now acts as client with Zcon XI-626 card wi2: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xe6002000-0xe6002fff irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0 wi2: 802.11 address: 00:60:b3:69:ea:69 wi2: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi2: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.1), Station (1.7.4) wi2: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps oposite to AP 5.1-RELEASE-p11 #0: Tue Jan 6 09:14:03 CET 2004 with the same Zcom card in hostap mode map02# wget -O /dev/null http://10.27.0.4/test.zip --00:56:30-- http://10.27.0.4/test.zip => `/dev/null' Connecting to 10.27.0.4:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 36,942,300 [application/zip] 7% [========> ] 2,710,352 106.53K/s ETA 05:13^ when I switched mode to adhoc between this boxes it runs on 11MBPs media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (DS/11Mbps <adhoc>) wget test was map02# wget -O /dev/null http://10.27.0.4/test.zip --01:11:15-- http://10.27.0.4/test.zip => `/dev/null' Connecting to 10.27.0.4:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 36,942,300 [application/zip] 14% [=================> ] 5,451,776 415.03K/s ETA 01:37^ there were no other clients associated on this APs and both BSD boxes were not hardloaded for better concept you can see our network structure there: http://mik.vol.cz:8082/nagios/cgi-bin/statusmap.cgi?host=all login: guest passw: guest the 5.2-CURRENT box is named "MAP02" , second one with 5.1-RELEASE-p11 is "bluehillz" , linux client is not shown but is connected to MAP02 So it seems that is something wrong in hostap mode, because as I wrote in first email, on FBSD 4-x hostap mode work properly on 11MBps. My friens who uses FBSD 5.1-REL on different geographical places has this problem too, so I think that problem is not caused by "local specifications" Thanks for reply. Jiri
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