Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-08 Thread Clint Pachl
James Turner 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

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Pedro la Peu
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 10:53:23 Stuart Henderson wrote: > I have a pair of Gigabyte cards which identify the same way; > > ral0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 10, > address 00:0f:ea:84:f4:ed ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 > > They are terrible, very poor sign

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > 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 > a

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
> It looks like newegg carries the EDIMAX EW-7128G. Since I bought the > previous card from them as well, maybe I'll have them switch them and > see if I have any better luck. Thanks for the suggestion. > We have done testing with that card as well, we used 3 circular 14db antennas on a 110ft

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread James Turner
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > I'd really like to have a sure-fire, always-works MiniPCI card for > > hostap that can be bought individually... any suggestions? are the 11n > > ral(4) any more predictable? anyone got CM9 working? > > We have had decent luck

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
> I'd really like to have a sure-fire, always-works MiniPCI card for > hostap that can be bought individually... any suggestions? are the 11n > ral(4) any more predictable? anyone got CM9 working? We have had decent luck with ral RT2860 chipset we use the edimax PCI cards. I sent a few of them

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:05:35PM -0400, James Turner wrote: > 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'm also using ral

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread James Turner
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-05-07, Daniel Melameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Markus Hennecke
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: just one other data point, this is the Gigabyte badged card in my home gateway, works IME better than the ath it replaced: ral0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 12, address 00:1a:4d:3c:88:76 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
just one other data point, this is the Gigabyte badged card in my home gateway, works IME better than the ath it replaced: ral0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 12, address 00:1a:4d:3c:88:76 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527 - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-07, Pierre Riteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a ral (MSI54G PCI card in a Soekris 4801 pf firewall) that I use > > 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 RT

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Pierre Riteau
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

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-07, Daniel Melameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Some 802.11g drivers/cards... I've had nothing b

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-06 Thread Rod Whitworth
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

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-06 Thread Daniel Melameth
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 >