Re: Reliable wireless card for 9-stable?

2013-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Frank Mayhar wrote: Seeing as the Intel Ultimate-N 6300 that's in my new Dell doesn't work in 9-stable (see related email here), I'm looking for a card that _does_ work. Can anyone recommend a decent 11a/g/n card that works well? At least for 11a and 11g, I realize that 11n

Re: freebsd-head and spectral scan

2013-01-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote: I hereby give you, AR9280 doing spectral + channel scanning: http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/ath/fft_snapshot_5ghz.7.png Nice! ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: [iwn] Review split 3

2013-07-29 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi! Cool! ok, the style niggles. * Your #define IWN_blah needs a TAB between #define and the IWN_blah value. Right now you have spaces. There is whitespace at the end of some of the comment lines also. textproc/igor will find problems like that: i

RE: WLAN PCIe HW recommendation for 8.1

2013-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: I found it cumbersome to map Atheros chipsets to PCIe cards, most of the time this info is hidden from the adapters data sheet. I must be completely on the wrong way. I would expect 10 min. to pick a PCIe WLAN card from the Freebsd HW notes, order

Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point

2013-11-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: I see in the man page for ath, and assume much would apply to other wireless adapters, Create an 802.11g host-based access point: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode hostap ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xff

Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point

2013-11-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Warren Block and my previous message: "hostap" is to make a FreeBSD system with a wireless card into a wireless router. Access point, if I understand correctly, would have a wired connection, such as cable or DSL, and the other comp

Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point

2013-11-18 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Warren Block: It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Most of the time, the FreeBSD system is just a client trying to connect to the access point. This article shows how to set that up both in /etc/rc.conf and manually with commands

Re: recommended usb wifi device?

2014-02-04 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Waitman Gobble wrote: On 2/4/2014 4:55 PM, Colin Percival wrote: On 02/04/14 16:01, Waitman Gobble wrote: Ralink is a good choice esp. for USB. You might have trouble using other supported chipsets which are connected to the USB port. Also note that the wireless card in th

Re: wireless mcast updates, ic->ic_update_mcast

2014-06-24 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Sean Bruno wrote: On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 12:47 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: Well, it depends on what the hardware may want or desire to function correctly. I've no idea what theose chips require for multicast behaviour. I think that was kind of my point of bringing this up.

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, atar wrote: Here's additional place where FreeBSD has lack of support: USB based printers. Here's a citation from the FreeBSD handbook (page no. 251): USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial Bus, can run at even faster speeds than parallel or RS-232 serial interfac