Leveraging OpenBSD for hostap at home, in the past the wi driver and related
hardware was rock solid and I never had an issue. I've since moved to
802.11g using ral, but I've had issues with it. Most notably, every couple
of weeks, or sometimes every couple of days, the ral card stops accepting
packets and I cannot get any system to associate with it. An ifconfig down
and up on the ral card gets things working again, but the issue seems to
quickly return shortly thereafter and sometimes a reboot is required to give
me a full week or two before the problem resurfaces again. In addition, my
PS3 is connected via Wi-Fi and ral and it do not get along. Performance of
the PS3 over ral is very poor and if I ping the PS3 ~30% of the packets are
dropped. These issues have been confirmed using different ral cards with
different chipsets.
As such, I decided to give pgt a spin instead-and, so far, I have had much
success. While it's only been a few days, I've yet to run into any issues
when using a pgt card. Also, the PS3 and it get along-file transfers are
fast and I don't lose any packets when pinging the PS3. However, I have
noticed some peculiarities with pgt. For one, unlike ral, a netstat -ni
never shows any Ierrs or Oerrs for pgt-and ifconfig -M under hostap is
nonfunctional.
I guess the question I have is, what's the ideal way to go about
troubleshooting the poor behavior of the ral card (hostname.if is identical
for both)? Any opinions on a "rock solid" card/driver for hostap?
Cheers.
$ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot
OpenBSD 4.1-stable (GENERIC) #2: Sun Jul 22 12:19:02 MDT 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class)
1.60 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,
FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,SBF,EST,TM2
real mem = 536244224 (523676K)
avail mem = 481591296 (470304K)
using 4278 buffers containing 26935296 bytes (26304K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 06/23/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0000,
SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xfa1ee (31 entries)
bios0: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq nc6000 (DQ880A#ABA)
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (BIOS managing devices)
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
apm0: flags 130102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x2000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf0840/160 (8 entries)
pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf6360/160 (8 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801DBM LPC" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #5 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000
acpi at mainbus0 not configured
cpu0 at mainbus0
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1600 MHz (1484 mV): speeds: 1600, 1400, 1200, 1000,
800, 600 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82855PE Hub" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82855PE AGP" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon Mobility M10 NP" rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 10
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 10
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 10
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 10
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x83
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ath0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 11
ath0: AR5213 5.6 phy 4.1 rf5111 1.7 rf2111 2.3, WOR0W, address
00:0b:cd:5a:28:bb
cbb0 at pci2 dev 6 function 0 "O2 Micro OZ711E0 CardBus" rev 0x00: irq 10
cbb1 at pci2 dev 6 function 1 "O2 Micro OZ711E0 CardBus" rev 0x00: irq 10
"O2 Micro OZ711Mx CardBus" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 6 function 2 not configured
cbb2 at pci2 dev 6 function 3 "O2 Micro OZ711E0 CardBus" rev 0x00: irq 10
bge0 at pci2 dev 14 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5705M Alt" rev 0x03, BCM5705 A3
(0x3003): irq 11, address 00:08:02:de:d3:2d
brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5705 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 2
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 4 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia1 at cardslot1
cardslot2 at cbb2 slot 2 flags 0
cardbus2 at cardslot2: bus 5 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia2 at cardslot2
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801DBM LPC" rev 0x03
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801DBM IDE" rev 0x03: DMA,
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <FUJITSU MHT2060AH>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 57231MB, 117210240 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, RW/DVD GCC-4241N, 0C29> SCSI0
5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801DB AC97" rev 0x03: irq 11, ICH4
AC97
ac97: codec id 0x41445374 (Analog Devices AD1981B)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
"Intel 82801DB Modem" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask e76d netmask ef6d ttymask ffef
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
fxp0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 "INTEL(R), PRO/100 CARDBUS II, MBLA3300":
INTEL(R) PRO/100 CARDBUS II: irq 10, address 00:03:47:18:1f:5d
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4
pgt0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 "Intersil, ISL3890, -": irq 10
ugen0 at uhub2 port 1
ugen0: ACTIONTEC Bluetooth by hp, rev 1.10/8.02, addr 2
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
