Re: problems with ral0 and OBSD 4.0

2007-09-19 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:13:10PM +0200, Alessandro Roncari wrote: > can I ask you, what mode are you using, 11b or 11g? and which channel? ral0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 lladdr 00:0c:f6:26:0d:b2 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap status: active

Re: problems with ral0 and OBSD 4.0

2007-09-19 Thread Alessandro Roncari
can I ask you, what mode are you using, 11b or 11g? and which channel? did you try different channels? I have a slightly different chipset, 2561s will try a different antenna though mine is a 9dBi and I thought it was enough I think there is also like you say a problem of packet loss, because e

Re: problems with ral0 and OBSD 4.0

2007-09-19 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:10:59PM +0200, Alessandro Roncari wrote: > is there anybody who feels like giving a good advice regarding a wireless > chipset to be used in hostap mode, well supported by obsd and spreading a > good signal? I wouldn't want to make a 2nd mistake, so I think best thing is

Re: problems with ral0 and OBSD 4.0

2007-09-19 Thread Alessandro Roncari
Thanks for your answer. unfortunately, I have tried already with 4.1 and current, but the signal didn't get any better. So I am considering changing the chipset, but it is quite confusing the amount of different opinons on the internet. is there anybody who feels like giving a good advice regardi

Re: problems with ral0 and OBSD 4.0

2007-09-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/19 13:10, Alessandro Roncari wrote: > So I am considering changing the chipset, but it is quite confusing the > amount of different opinons on the internet. they seem to be quite fussy about pigtail/antenna. I have some GC-WIKG which perform really badly in a soekris with any cable/ant

Re: problems with ral0 and OBSD 4.0

2007-09-18 Thread Pierre Riteau
Le 18 sept. 07 ` 18:41, Alessandro Roncari a icrit : Hello I have the following issue with ralink wireless card, acting in hostap mode hardware: ral-rt2561s board acting as access point on a Soekris Net4501, running OpenBSD 4.0. can't seem to make it work like it should, even with a 9dBi a

problems with ral0 and OBSD 4.0

2007-09-18 Thread Alessandro Roncari
Hello I have the following issue with ralink wireless card, acting in hostap mode > hardware: ral-rt2561s board acting as access point on a Soekris > Net4501, running OpenBSD 4.0. can't seem to make it work like it should, even with a 9dBi antenna the signal is very weak and much weaker than