On Wednesday 07 May 2008 10:53:23 Stuart Henderson wrote: > I have a pair of Gigabyte cards which identify the same way; > > ral0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 10, > address 00:0f:ea:84:f4:ed ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 > > They are terrible, very poor signal strength on both. I guess there's > either a lot of difference between cards using the same ICs, or > they're very sensitive to pigtail or something (though I tried > several). > > I'd really like to have a sure-fire, always-works MiniPCI card for > hostap that can be bought individually... any suggestions? are the > 11n ral(4) any more predictable? anyone got CM9 working?
I've not seen good radio performance from the pre-MIMO rals though many people here have been very happy with them. MIMO rals have more useful radios IME. Not sure about miniPCI but RT28xx has been good here. Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/04/26 14:08:01 Modified files: sys/dev/ic : rt2860.c Log message: hardware TKIP (including MIC) + CCMP OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #853: Fri May 2 04:37:23 MDT 2008 ral0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Ralink RT2860" rev 0x00: irq 10, address 00:0c:f6:xx:xx:xx ral0: MAC/BBP RT2860 (rev 0x0101), RF RT2820 (2T3R) ral0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:0c:f6:xx:xx:xx groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap status: active ieee80211: nwid babbage chan 3 bssid 00:0c:f6:xx:xx:xx wpapsk <not displayed> wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk,802.1x wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip 100dBm