On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:15:23PM +1000, Rod Whitworth wrote: > 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/ > (Any off-list replies to the reply-to address only, please. Others are > tarpitted.) > -- > Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused his dentist's Novocain > during root canal work? He wanted to transcend dental medication. >
I agree this is a good card, I have the very same: ral0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 11, address 00:13:d3:00:43:fc ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 and I can easily get 2.6 MB/s with sftp. -- Pierre Riteau
