On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:59:53AM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>I want OpenBSD in hostap mode with PCI or PCIe ath / athn driver.
Be aware that hostap mode is not particularly reliable, usable, or with
good peformance at the moment.
What does at the moment mean?
I've not had chance to really test hostap mode with a real workload on 5.8 yet,
but I did test it using ath, athn, and ral with every -release up to 5.7 since
I've had the hardware. I saw very little if any change in performance, which
was not surprising as the code has not changed much..
I've only just upgraded to 5.8 and I did notice whatsapp not being
quite so snappy but 5.6 seemed (no real testing) both reliable and
usable for us?
I experienced slow performance, the transmission mode dropping under heavy
loads, and random hangs.
Incidentally, the existing code for many wireless chipsets doesn't set the
usable channels correctly, based on the regdomain. The only way to prevent
usage of unavailable channels seems to be by modifying the source.
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