To tie the knot off on this saga for those on the list and otherwise, the
Winstrom CM9 card I purchased just would not do 802.11g. Every search I
performed lead me to this fact, including the output from 'ifconfig ath0
media.'
I ended up buying a _much cheaper_ Gigabyte GN-WI01GS mini-pci b/g card
based upon ral(4) chipset. Running 4.6 stable this setup seems to be working
great with 802.11g hostap using WPA. The only niggle is that the power seems
a bit low, that's the one setting I have not been able to get working
appropriately.
dmesg related output:
ral0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 9, address
00:14:85:d3:70:4e
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527
hostname.ral0:
inet 10.10.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect mediaopt hostap mode 11g
nwid myhomewifi wpa wpapsk redacted wpaakms psk nwflag hidenwid
Cheers,
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Yeah, this is something I did battle with awhile ago. I have a laptop
> with an Atheros 5005 based card that I use as a gateway between a
> wired and wireless network. As far as I know, the ath(4) driver
> doesn't have the ability to do 11g, only 11a and 11b. Same thing with
> a DCMA81 11abg card.
>
> I can't see it being too hard to do, the driver will support OFDM54 -
> whether this will cooperate with a 802.11g based router I couldn't
> say.
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Forman, Jeffrey <j...@jeffreyforman.net>
> wrote:
> > To do some more testing, I upgraded to the latest i386 snapshot, but
> seems
> > that I get the same results. 802.11a/b work, but not g. A subscriber
> emailed
> > me off list about forcing "mode 11g" in the hostname.ath0 file, which I
> did.
> > But to no avail, that did not work either.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Forman, Jeffrey <j...@jeffreyforman.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Misc,
> >>
> >> I recently have built myself a pcengines alix single board computer with
> an
> >> Winstrom CM9 (atheros ar5212) mini pci wifi card, that according to
> ath(4)
> >> supports hostap mode. I believe I have my hostname.ath0 file setup
> >> correctly, but the card refuses to go into 11g mode, only using 11b/11a.
> >> When attempting to run "sh /etc/netstart ath0" with the below
> >> hostnames.ath0, I receive no error message. The card just goes into 11b
> or
> >> 11a mode.
> >>
> >> Is there something I'm missing, or any debugging I can provide to get
> this
> >> functionality working? Currently I am running the 4.6 stable branch on
> this
> >> machine.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >> dmesg:
> >> OpenBSD 4.6-stable (GENERIC) #2: Sun Mar 7 23:07:23 EST 2010
> >> r...@builder:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> >> cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD"
> 586-class)
> >> 499 MHz
> >> cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX
> >> real mem = 268009472 (255MB)
> >> avail mem = 250335232 (238MB)
> >> mainbus0 at root
> >> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 11/05/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd088
> >> pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
> >> pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
> >> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
> >> pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
> >> bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xa800
> >> cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
> >> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
> >> pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x33
> >> glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES
> >> vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10,
> >> address 00:0d:b9:1b:b6:4c
> >> ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
> >> 0x004063, model 0x0034
> >> vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11,
> >> address 00:0d:b9:1b:b6:4d
> >> ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
> >> 0x004063, model 0x0034
> >> vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 15,
> >> address 00:0d:b9:1b:b6:4e
> >> ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
> >> 0x004063, model 0x0034
> >> ath0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 9
> >> ath0: AR5213A 5.9 phy 4.3 rf5112a 3.6, FCC2A*, address 00:1b:b1:02:de:ad
> >> glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 0,
> 32-bit
> >> 3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio
> >> gpio0 at glxpcib0: 32 pins
> >> pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA,
> channel 0
> >> wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
> >> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFH-008G>
> >> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 7641MB, 15649200 sectors
> >> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
> >> pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
> >> ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 12,
> version
> >> 1.0, legacy support
> >> ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 12
> >> usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
> >> uhub0 at usb0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
> >> isa0 at glxpcib0
> >> isadma0 at isa0
> >> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> >> com0: console
> >> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> >> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> >> midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> >> spkr0 at pcppi0
> >> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
> >> usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
> >> uhub1 at usb1 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
> >> biomask 71e7 netmask ffe7 ttymask ffff
> >> mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers)
> >> nvram: invalid checksum
> >> umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Western Digital
> >> External HDD" rev 2.00/1.75 addr 2
> >> umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
> >> scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0
> >> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <WD, 2500BMV External, 1.75> SCSI2
> 0/direct
> >> fixed
> >> sd0: 238475MB, 512 bytes/sec, 488397168 sec total
> >> softraid0 at root
> >> root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
> >>
> >> # cat
> >> /etc/hostname.ath0
> >>
> >> inet 10.10.1.1 255.255.255.0 10.10.1.255 mediaopt hostap nwid mywifi wpa
> >> wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpapsk redacted description "Wireless HostAP"
> >>
> >> # ifconfig ath0 media
> >> ath0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> >> 1500
> >> lladdr 00:1b:b1:de:ad
> >> description: Wireless HostAP
> >> priority: 4
> >> groups: wlan
> >> media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11b hostap
> >> status: active
> >> ieee80211: nwid mywifi chan 3 bssid 00:1b:b1:02:66:f1 wpapsk
> >> redacted wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp
> wpagroupcipher
> >> tkip
> >> supported media:
> >> media autoselect
> >> media autoselect mediaopt ibss
> >> media autoselect mediaopt hostap
> >> media autoselect mediaopt monitor
> >> media autoselect mode 11a
> >> media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM6 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM6 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM6 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM6 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM9 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM9 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM9 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM9 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM12 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM12 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM12 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM12 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM18 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM18 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM18 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM18 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM24 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM24 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM24 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM24 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM36 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM36 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM36 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM36 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM48 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM48 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM48 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM48 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM54 mode 11a
> >> media OFDM54 mode 11a mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM54 mode 11a mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM54 mode 11a mediaopt monitor
> >> media autoselect mode 11b
> >> media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt ibss
> >> media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt hostap
> >> media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS1 mode 11b
> >> media DS1 mode 11b mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS1 mode 11b mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS1 mode 11b mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS2 mode 11b
> >> media DS2 mode 11b mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS2 mode 11b mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS2 mode 11b mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS5 mode 11b
> >> media DS5 mode 11b mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS5 mode 11b mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS5 mode 11b mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS11 mode 11b
> >> media DS11 mode 11b mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS11 mode 11b mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS11 mode 11b mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM6
> >> media OFDM6 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM6 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM6 mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM9
> >> media OFDM9 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM9 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM9 mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM12
> >> media OFDM12 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM12 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM12 mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM18
> >> media OFDM18 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM18 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM18 mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM24
> >> media OFDM24 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM24 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM24 mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM36
> >> media OFDM36 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM36 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM36 mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM48
> >> media OFDM48 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM48 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM48 mediaopt monitor
> >> media OFDM54
> >> media OFDM54 mediaopt ibss
> >> media OFDM54 mediaopt hostap
> >> media OFDM54 mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS1
> >> media DS1 mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS1 mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS1 mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS2
> >> media DS2 mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS2 mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS2 mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS5
> >> media DS5 mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS5 mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS5 mediaopt monitor
> >> media DS11
> >> media DS11 mediaopt ibss
> >> media DS11 mediaopt hostap
> >> media DS11 mediaopt monitor
> >> inet 10.10.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.1.255
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict
> I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
