Olivier Wouters wrote:
Hi (I have already sent this to freebsd-net previously, however I did
not receive any substantial aid there),
I am relatively new to FreeBSD (I use 6.0-RELEASE-p6) having only used
it for approximately 2 months, and have run into a little bit of a
problem with my wireless setup. I am currently using a WUSB54G ver. 4
(Linksys Wireless-G USB network adapter:
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1115416827517&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper)
with the router ( a Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router) being
downstairs. My particular network adapter uses the Ralink RT2500
chipset, and the Ural driver, which was ported over from OpenBSD,
supports this particular chipset. I have gotten ural to work on boot
by adding the following into /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ural0="DHCP netmask
255.255.255.0 ssid holo wepmode on wepkey 0x[wep key] weptxkey 1".
However, my connection is rather poor to my router, with my connection
strength staying at 7%, intermittently jumping up to 85% every now and
then. I can't quite understand why my connection is so bad, and it is
irritating me as I often lose connection entirely and am forced to as
root run the the ifconfig line and then dhclient ural0 to regain
connection. Here is the output of dmesg for my nic and usb:
$ dmesg | grep usb
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
usb3: EHCI version 1.0
usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
usb3: <Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
$ dmesg | grep ural0
ural0: Cisco-Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter, rev 2.00/0.04, addr 2
ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x05), RF RT2526
ural0: Ethernet address: 00:12:17:75:c8:a8
ural0: if_start running deferred for Giant
$
Has anyone encountered similar difficulties or happen to know what may
be the cause of this problem. I had no problems with connection or
connection loss in Windows XP, so i am quite clueless for this strange
connection loss and low connectivity. Thanks in advance for any aid.
Olivier W.
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This is kind of off topic, but I have to give my two cents worth:
RT2500 = garbage;
Two Averatec laptops, equipped with built in RT2500 chipsets, were
purchased at the same time by me and a friend.
I immediately wiped the disk and installed FreeBSD, my buddy isn't
very technical and stuck with Windows XP.
The RT2500 aggravated the heck out of me. The only way I could get a
decent signal was to put the laptop two feet away from the wireless
router. This isn't a FreeBSD issue. My buddy experienced the same
weak and dropped signals running Windows XP. We both have WRT54G's as
well.
I wound up buying a Netgear pccard with the Atheros chipset, and it
just works flawlessly. I made my buddy do the same. Kind of pissed I
had to shell out $50.00, but I'm not aggravated any more.
-Bryan
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