hostap TX fix in 5.x

[Jesse Guardiani]

Scott Pilz wrote:

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> 11mbit/half duplex 802.11b.. I've seen speeds at around
> 600KBytes/sec (4.6mbit/sec) which is about the best you can do - and isn't
> bad by any means. As I explained below, the problem is with FBSD 5.X (all
> the way to CURRENT), where I'm seeing the speeds drop from what they were
> in 4.x to around 180KBytes/sec (or 1.4mbit/sec).

Hmmm... well that might explain why my Bacula backup yesterday morning over wi0
was only getting 180KBytes/sec. I thought that was really odd. Moving to
10/100 with fxp driver instantly gave me 1226.4 KB/s (9.58mbit/sec) with
the exact same config. Granted, 9.58mbit/s isn't real great either, but at
that point I'm being limited by my laptop's CPU because my bacula file daemon
is configured to gzip the data before sending it over the wire.

wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xf0000000-0xf0000fff irq 9 at device 2.0 on pci2
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:20:e0:8a:90:61
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.1), Station (1.7.4)
wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps

I had originally chalked it up to the fact that I run 104-bit WEP, but now
I'm thinking that it's wi's fault.

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