On Tue, 6 May 2008 23:26:26 -0600, Daniel Melameth wrote:
>On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've been trying to get my new ral(4) card to work like I would expect it
>> to. I've read through most if not all the talk on misc@ about running these
>> cards in hostap mode. I would really like to replace my wi(4), which
>> works really well, with my new ral(4) and enjoy 11g and later wpa.
>> Sadly, the performance is just not there in both 11b or 11g modes.
>>
>> Some info, the ral(4) is a Gigabyte GN-WP01GS which is an RT2561S. My
>> basic hostname.ral0 reads: inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media
>> autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap nwid my_net nwkey secret chan 11.
>> I've enabled RAL_DEBUG in my kernel and selected one of the standard
>> channels with the highest power. This is on 4.2 -release + patches. If
>> anyone has any new or additional information that might be helpful I
>> would greatly appreciate it, otherwise I guess I'll stick to my trusted
>> wi(4).
>
>Personally, I've given up on using OpenBSD as an AP--though I have for
>years. Back when I used wi, everything worked very well. However,
>802.11g drivers/cards work very poorly as APs. While speed with them
>can be good at times, different wireless clients performed erratically
>and frequently the AP would lock up. I have since moved on and now
>use commercial APs.
>
>Sorry if this is not what you were looking for. I'd love to say
>802.11g, OpenBSD and APs work swimmingly, but that has never been the
>case for me.
>
Hmmmm..... MMMV (My Mileage Must Vary)
I have a ral (MSI54G PCI card in a Soekris 4801 pf firewall) that I use
for laptop connectivity inside my Faraday Cage house. It also talks to
a wireless router hacked to be a wireless interface for my PVR
(Topfield) so that the Toppy can get its EPG updates every day and
transfer recorded stuff to a PC for editing. It looks like this:
$ ifconfig ral0
ral0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
lladdr 00:13:d3:6b:a9:be
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap
status: active
ieee80211: nwid puffy2 chan 11 bssid 00:13:d3:6b:a9:be nwkey
<not displayed> 100dBm
inet 192.168.181.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.181.255
inet6 fe80::213:d3ff:fe6b:a9be%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
and it does ftp which talks to the Toppy through USB 1 connection:
ftp> get HDDInfo.tap
local: HDDInfo.tap remote: HDDInfo.tap
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,181,81,4,68)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'HDDInfo.tap' (189924
bytes).
100% |**************************************************| 185 KB
00:00
226 Transfer complete.
189924 bytes received in 0.38 seconds (487.06 KB/s)
$
Not too shabby and it does stuff lots faster talking to the laptop
quite reliably.
FWIW.
Rod/
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