On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:47AM +1100, Aaron Mason wrote: > Yeah, this is something I did battle with awhile ago. I have a laptop > with an Atheros 5005 based card that I use as a gateway between a > wired and wireless network. As far as I know, the ath(4) driver > doesn't have the ability to do 11g, only 11a and 11b. Same thing with > a DCMA81 11abg card.
Yep, the same holds for AR5213A-based cards. I've had a Mini-PCI card in my Soekris for quite a while, now, but never have been able to set it in 11g mode. It works nicely in 11b, though. OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC) #58: Thu Jul 9 21:24:42 MDT 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC ath0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 11 ath0: AR5213A 5.9 phy 4.3 rf5112a 3.6, FCC2A*, address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX bifconfig ath0 mediab does indeed not list 11g as an available mode, and I notice that ath(4) does not actually mention 5213 chips. Looks like I'm lucky it's recognized at all. -- Olivier Mehani <sht...@ssji.net> PGP fingerprint: 4435 CF6A 7C8D DD9B E2DE F5F9 F012 A6E2 98C6 6655 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]