On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:52:00AM -0800, dormando wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I bought a hawking HWUG1A USB wireless adapter with external antenna
> port thingie. Using it with OpenBSD 4.2 in hostap mode. I'm having
> issues where it'll drop clients off the network if they're not
> constantly ping'ing something. It also tops out at 100k/sec, even though
> the adapter links up in 802.11g mode. The same host is able to transfer
> several megabytes/sec over the same USB ports.
>
> The configuration's bridged, and was directly converted from me having a
> networked WAP bridged over an extra network port.
>
> Shows up as:
>
> rum0 at uhub3 port 1
> rum0: Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2
> rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528, address 00:0e:3b:09:81:65
>
> Configured as:
>
> media autoselect mediaopt hostap nwid dormando mode 11g chan 3 txpower 95 up
>
> ... I've twiddled the mode (I think), txpower, channel, etc.
>
> I'm emptyheaded as far as wireless still. What should I try next? The
> dropping thing is pretty annoying :)
>
> Thanks,
> -Dormando
I think you should read the last lines of the rum(4) man page.
-Otto
