Re: ath and 802.11a
Hi, Actually just 802.11b works for the ath, because of some quirks in the driver code. Reyk knows about the problem, but it seems not so easy to fix. Regards, Marcus On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 07:11:21 +0100 Fridtjof Busse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seconded (as if I needed to with Theo responding :P) I have an old Atheros based cardbus adaptor that will supposedly do b +g but I know for a fact not a, check the specs of the device please and do as Theo asks... dmesg is useful. Well, I'll not try a with an unsupported piece of hardware. According to the manpage my Wistron CM 9 does a/b/g. But it doesn't do g and that's why I'm not sure if it will do a as well. Interesting thing is that according to CVS only b was reported working, but a/b/g was added to the manpage. It doesn't really help me if the manpages lists the modes the card supports instead of the mode that OpenBSD supports... -- Fridtjof Busse This game lends itself to certain abuses. --- Calvin -- Marcus Glocker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.nazgul.ch -
Re: ath and 802.11a
On 3/3/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anybody using 802.11a with ath? The manpage lists a/b/g as working, although g definitly doesn't work for me, only b does. Now I'm curious if anything besides b actually works before I buy an antenna for a. Or is it just my cards? If not, why isn't there a note about this in the manpage? There are many different models of the ath hardware. Not everything works perfectly -- but much of it does work. I think it is a bad thing to make simplified statements like you did above. Without specific model information *taken right out of dmesg*, noone will be able to help you. And your mail joins the archive, feeding future pessimism, which it should not really do. I'm going to look around for various AR5212 devices and try out 802.11a. There is just way too much b/g traffic in my building on 1, 6, 11, I'm sure there are some 2.4GHz phones, too, so I have to try something else. When I do I will report. Greg
Re: ath and 802.11a
Is anybody using 802.11a with ath? The manpage lists a/b/g as working, although g definitly doesn't work for me, only b does. Now I'm curious if anything besides b actually works before I buy an antenna for a. Or is it just my cards? If not, why isn't there a note about this in the manpage? There are many different models of the ath hardware. Not everything works perfectly -- but much of it does work. I think it is a bad thing to make simplified statements like you did above. Without specific model information *taken right out of dmesg*, noone will be able to help you. And your mail joins the archive, feeding future pessimism, which it should not really do.
Re: ath and 802.11a
* Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is anybody using 802.11a with ath? The manpage lists a/b/g as working, although g definitly doesn't work for me, only b does. Now I'm curious if anything besides b actually works before I buy an antenna for a. Or is it just my cards? If not, why isn't there a note about this in the manpage? There are many different models of the ath hardware. Not everything works perfectly -- but much of it does work. I think it is a bad thing to make simplified statements like you did above. Well, there was a thread some weeks ago that stated that 802.11g generally doesn't work with ath (in Hostap and 802.11g): no, only 11b with atheros. there is no implementation for 11g in openbsd. Or does g only not work in hostap? Without specific model information *taken right out of dmesg*, noone will be able to help you. ath0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 Atheros AR5212 rev 0x01: irq 12 ath0: AR5212 5.9 phy 4.3 rf5112 3.6, FCC1A, address 00:0b:6b:36:00:dc That's a Wistron CM 9. Any chance of getting a working on this typ of card? -- Fridtjof Busse YAAH! DEATH TO OATMEAL! -- Calvin
Re: ath and 802.11a
Seconded (as if I needed to with Theo responding :P) I have an old Atheros based cardbus adaptor that will supposedly do b+g but I know for a fact not a, check the specs of the device please and do as Theo asks... dmesg is useful. Having said that... Theo it may interest you that the man page says that 3 devices are supported and it states for each that 802.11a is supported.. (AR5210, AR5211 and AR5212).. this may just mean that the driver has moved beyond the man page but I believe OpenBSD man pages are the best and most accurate so maybe this needs some updates. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theo de Raadt Sent: 03 March 2006 20:48 To: Fridtjof Busse Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: ath and 802.11a Is anybody using 802.11a with ath? The manpage lists a/b/g as working, although g definitly doesn't work for me, only b does. Now I'm curious if anything besides b actually works before I buy an antenna for a. Or is it just my cards? If not, why isn't there a note about this in the manpage? There are many different models of the ath hardware. Not everything works perfectly -- but much of it does work. I think it is a bad thing to make simplified statements like you did above. Without specific model information *taken right out of dmesg*, noone will be able to help you. And your mail joins the archive, feeding future pessimism, which it should not really do.
Re: ath and 802.11a
* Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seconded (as if I needed to with Theo responding :P) I have an old Atheros based cardbus adaptor that will supposedly do b +g but I know for a fact not a, check the specs of the device please and do as Theo asks... dmesg is useful. Well, I'll not try a with an unsupported piece of hardware. According to the manpage my Wistron CM 9 does a/b/g. But it doesn't do g and that's why I'm not sure if it will do a as well. Interesting thing is that according to CVS only b was reported working, but a/b/g was added to the manpage. It doesn't really help me if the manpages lists the modes the card supports instead of the mode that OpenBSD supports... -- Fridtjof Busse This game lends itself to certain abuses. --- Calvin
