I've been quite happy using an OpenBSD box as a wireless access point and gateway for while, and when I discovered there was in fact such a thing as a 802.11b VoIP phone, I suddenly found myself under some pressure to make the beast work in our home network, where my access point is an OpenBSD box with an ath card (DWL-AG520) which shows up in dmesg as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep ath ath0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 11 ath0: AR5212 5.6 phy 4.1 rf5111 1.7 rf2111 2.3, ETSI1W, address 00:0d:88:c8:a7:c4 Now the phone manages to get an IP address via DHCP and contact the VoIP provider's servers, but the sound quality is extremely, horribly bad. The problem seems to be that the phone is unhappy with the signal strength (nevermind that various computers in the same room are communicating quite well), with the display signal indicator showing in the neighborhood of 30%. After a while the zyxel support people (who earlier had told me that all kinds of encryption was bad, really bad) suggested I try to boost my access point's signal strength. Finally, a suggestion that seemed to make sense, and I tried to look into how to do just that. The ifconfig man page seems to suggest that the txpower parameter (or alternatively -txpower) is what I need, but I must be reading the syntax wrong - every attempt so far has produced only ifconfig: SIOCS80211TXPOWER: Invalid argument Is txpower indeed supported (with ath cards), or is it my man page reading ability which is for some reason temporarily disabled? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"
