Re: Wireless cards
Hi, I'm using D-Link DWA-547 for a couple of months now in hostap mode and it seems to work grate. It's a PCI card with atheros chipset. Yury. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:37 AM, J. Altman freebsd-annou...@chthonic.comwrote: Greetings... uname -a FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010 r...@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 My Netgear WG311T, with an Atheros chipset, seems to be at its end. The box is about thirty feet from the WAP, almost directly in line through an open door: --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 27 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 22.2% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.811/9.526/35.551/8.051 ms I see this: dmesg | grep wlan0: link state changed to | wc 9 54 296 Where up or down follows to for a box with this uptime: up 2:04 Over several days, this can occur hundreds of times; and often, ifconfig shows this: DS/1 Mbps or similar; then it will bounce back to OFDM; bounce around between OFDM bandwidths: then eventually fall to DS. This is suboptimal. So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I just want it to work. Thanks for any recommendations; and best regards, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless cards
On Tue, 25 May 2010 21:37:12 -0400 J. Altman freebsd-annou...@chthonic.com articulated: So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I just want it to work. You can view a listing of known supported cards here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html#WLAN However; if you are looking for a modern, supported 'N' wireless card, you are pretty much out of luck. There is a dearth of drivers for any of the newer chips with no discernible relief in sight. -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ XML is a giant step in no direction at all. Erik Naggum ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless cards
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:37:12PM -0400, J. Altman wrote: So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I just want it to work. Thanks, Jerry; but I know about that page. I also know that, for instance, the link http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp is non-functional, for me at least. I suspect Atheros took down the host. Anyway: it was a question more like What are people finding to work well?; sort of a request for recommendations; including using the NDIS wrapper. I assume that experience with that may vary by card. I neglected to mention that I'm not on the list, so a Cc: to my address is welcome. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless Cards ?
--On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:38:45 -0400 Edmund Allain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What wireless cards work on BSD ? I need a specific card in which I can go to Compusa and purchase it. I have already bought a smc2602w which was suppose to work but they change the chip. I m really frustrated with this delimna. Please give specific card names I'm using a WPC54GS from Linksys/Cisco using the NDISulator on 5-CURRENT. Thanks in advance eddie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Cards ?
Larry Rosenman wrote: I'm using a WPC54GS from Linksys/Cisco using the NDISulator on 5-CURRENT. What's recommended for a desktop? I have one single cable connected (through out the house) from my desk top to my wireless hub. Thanks, Michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Cards ?
Edmund Allain wrote: What wireless cards work on BSD ? I need a specific card in which I can go to Compusa and purchase it. I have already bought a smc2602w which was suppose to work but they change the chip. I m really frustrated with this delimna. Please give specific card names Thanks in advance eddie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was using wifi cards based on Prism chipset - Z-COM XI-626 (PCI) in desktop and Z-COM XI-325 (PCMCIA) in laptop. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Wireless Cards ?
Edmund Allain wrote: What wireless cards work on BSD ? I need a specific card in which I can go to Compusa and purchase it. I have already bought a smc2602w which was suppose to work but they change the chip. I m really frustrated with this delimna. Please give specific card names Thanks in advance eddie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using a D-Link AirPlus Xtreme, got it from ebuyer.co.uk, but guess you can get it from ebuyer.com as well. Works fine, except: WEP doesn't work (when I gave the key I used with w2k and linux ifconfig did not accept it, because it were to short, if I added two random digits ifconfig accepted the key, but the router didn't as the key was not the proper key anymore. so I switched to access restriction by MAC address, which is not a problem as it is my home network. Another problem was that the card did not come up at boot time just by putting the ifconfig statements into /etc/rc.conf like ifconfig_ath0=inet 192.168.6.202 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_ath0_alias0=inet 192.168.6.205 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig_ath0_alias1=inet 192.168.6.206 netmask 255.255.255.255 So I create ath0_up.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d as: #!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.6.202 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig ath0 alias 192.168.6.205 netmask 255.255.255.255 /sbin/ifconfig ath0 alias 192.168.6.206 netmask 255.255.255.255 /sbin/route add default 192.168.6.1 Works without problems since then (but maybe someone has a hint how to avoid all this) Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
