ath driver transmit power?

Kris Maglione bsdaemon at comcast.net
Mon Jan 17 19:38:19 PST 2005


Brooks Davis wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:18:02PM +0000, Kris Maglione wrote:
>  
>
>>Sorry, the problem turned out to be a bad ethernet cable.
>>
>>Slightly off-topic, but does anyone if/when the native ath driver will 
>>support turbo modes (mainly for 11a, since both my card and my driver 
>>support it.). With turbo mode, this thing can go faster than my 
>>hard-wired ethernet, even through a wall with 11a.
>>    
>>
>
>Sam is working on this.  It will most likely be supported in 6.0.  It
>will not be supported in 5.x because the API/ABI changes are too great
>to merge to a stable branch.
>
>-- Brooks
>  
>
Ok, thanks. I can live with running 6.0 on my laptop.

I changed my mind about the transmit power again, though. The windows 
driver consistently has a higher data rate (54Mbps when bsd has 18Mbps, 
ignoring turbo mode), and it works through walls, where the freebsd 
driver doesn't. I guess I might as well /try/ the ndisulator. It can't 
hurt, except to hard hand my laptop, I guess.
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