Thanks for your answer. unfortunately, I have tried already with 4.1 and current, but the signal didn't get any better.
So I am considering changing the chipset, but it is quite confusing the amount of different opinons on the internet. is there anybody who feels like giving a good advice regarding a wireless chipset to be used in hostap mode, well supported by obsd and spreading a good signal? I wouldn't want to make a 2nd mistake, so I think best thing is to trust somebody who's using himself the same hardware. to summarize, I'm running a Soekris NET4501 with obsd 4.0 installed, and not able to find a good wireless chipset to let it act as access point. Regards Alessandro Soekris docs & rulesets http://sekureshell.altervista.org 2007/9/18, Pierre Riteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Le 18 sept. 07 ` 18:41, Alessandro Roncari a icrit : > > > Hello > > > > I have the following issue with ralink wireless card, acting in hostap > > mode > > > >> hardware: ral-rt2561s board acting as access point on a Soekris > >> Net4501, running OpenBSD 4.0. > > > > > > can't seem to make it work like it should, even with a 9dBi antenna > > the > > signal is very weak and much weaker than my old netgear AP. weak and > > unstable > > > > everything is set up correctly > > > > # dmesg | grep ral0 > > ral0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 10, > > address 00:12:0e:61:80:98 > > ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT5225 > > > > > > ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > lladdr 00:12:0e:61:80:98 > > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect hostap (autoselect mode 11a > > hostap) > > status: active > > ieee80211: nwid xxx chan 11 bssid 00:12:0e:61:80:98 nwkey > > xxxx > > 100dBm > > inet 192.168.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.x.xxx > > inet6 fe80::212:eff:fe61:8098%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > > > > but it seems it's all working at very small % of its power. > > question is: is this a known bug in the driver?? or is there > > anything I > > could do to improve the situation? > > Update to OpenBSD 4.1 or -current, there were some changes in ral(4) > code. > > e.g. > replace rssadapt(9) with amrr for automatic rate control. > as a side-effect, this should fix all the "bogus xmit rate" panics > users have been complaining about for some time when operating in > HostAP mode. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alessandro > > Soekris docs & rulesets http://sekureshell.altervista.org
