On Mar 29 15:01:10, [email protected] wrote: > > I only plugged _one_ of those dongle antennas > > into the tiny connectoron the the card. Is that related to the 3T2R? > > Is that related to the timeouts? (Please excuse my wifi HW ignorance.) > > You *must* plug at least 2 antennas if you want to use the card in 11n mode. > Otherwise you will see packet loss. If you only have 1 antenna, disable 11n > by adding a line that says 'mode 11g' at the top of hostname.athn0. > > > Generally, what are the options nowadays for running an AP? > > The athn card you have is a good option. I would recommend using 5 GHz > but your card does not support it. Apart from that, this card is great. > You might want to look into adding a second antenna so you can benefit > from 11n mode. You might have to drill holes into the ALIX case for this. > An ALIX I use runs in 11a mode for this reason and it's good enough for me.
Thank you for the insight. I put the second antenna in and the packet loss disappeared. Could it matter which 2 of the 3 I am using? I used the two marked (1) and (2), not using the unmarked third in the other corner: http://stare.cz/dmesg/alix2c1-athn.jpg Anyway, mode 11g still seems more reliable than the faster 11n. These also disappeared once I switched to 11g: athn0: device timeout athn0: device timeout athn0: device timeout So the hostname.athn0 is now: inet 192.168.33.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect mediaopt hostap mode 11g nwid stare.cz wpakey FOO Thanks! Jan http://stare.cz/dmesg/alix2c1-athn.jpg http://stare.cz/dmesg/alix2c1.20170328 OpenBSD 6.1 (GENERIC) #277: Tue Mar 28 21:51:32 MDT 2017 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery> cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 432 MHz cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX,MMXX,3DNOW2,3DNOW real mem = 133713920 (127MB) avail mem = 118480896 (112MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: date 12/10/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfceb2 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable. pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xa800 cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x31 glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10, address 00:0d:b9:12:9f:2c ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034 vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11, address 00:0d:b9:12:9f:2d ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034 vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 12, address 00:0d:b9:12:9f:2e ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034 athn0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Atheros AR5416" rev 0x01: irq 9 athn0: MAC AR5416 rev 2, RF AR2133 (3T2R), ROM rev 2, address 00:1d:6a:6b:03:07 glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 3, 32-bit 3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio, i2c gpio0 at glxpcib0: 32 pins iic0 at glxpcib0 pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ELITE PRO CF CARD 8GB> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 7279MB, 14909328 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at glxpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 nvram: invalid checksum vscsi0 at root scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (bf940e6c7aaf2c50.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b clock: unknown CMOS layout WARNING: clock time much less than file system time WARNING: using file system time WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
