Same story here.
After a lot of tries with two different Atheros AR5212/5213 (one CM9 and
one TP-Link) I bought "Tonze PC-620C" minipci card with Ralink chipset.
Mission accomplished.
Alexander
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 09:19 -0400, Forman, Jeffrey wrote:
> 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
