Oops! (was: Support for Intel 5100 WiFi ?)

[Adrian Chadd]

What's the output of 'ifconfig wlanX list sta'?



Adrian


On 10 October 2012 14:38, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Bernhard for all the additional info about the current state
> of the iwn driver.
>
> I still do have a couple more small questions however.
>
> First it really does appear to me that even when my iwm0 device is
> successfully connecting to an AP which has been set to do "N-only",
> the information that is displayed via "ifconfig -a" is still showing
> it as if it were communicating using 11g:
>
>>re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>        options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
>>        ether 00:24:21:65:ad:a0
>>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>)
>>        status: no carrier
>>iwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>>        ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18
>>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng
>>        status: associated
>>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>>        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
>>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>        ether 00:22:fb:76:6d:18
>>        inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>        inet6 fe80::222:fbff:fe76:6d18%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
>>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/24Mbps mode 11ng
>>        status: associated
>>        ssid ronair2-1 channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g ht/40-) bssid c0:c1:c0:8b:4b:f3
>                                              ^^^
>>        country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
>>        AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 450 bgscan
>>        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 64 protmode CTS
>>        ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi wme
>>        roaming MANUAL
>
> Should I file a PR on this small problem/issue?
>
> Second, and again based on the output shown via "ifconfig -a", it
> appears to me that even when it is in `N' mode (and even when my AP is
> set to "auto" selection of either 40 or 20Mhz channels), the card
> is never managing to get above 54Mbps, tops (and often considerably less,
> as you can see above).
>
> So what am I doing wrong exactly?  I had been trying some different equipment
> earlier, but in the same locations and at the same distance, and in that case
> I was routinely getting between 117Mbps and as much as 130Mbps... or anyway,
> so said dd-wrt.
>
> Ultimately, I want to stream HD out to the laptop that has the Intel 5100
> in in, and thus, I really would like to get something above 54Mbps.  And
> it seems to me that this _should_ be possible.  (In theory, I should be able
> to get all of the way to 150Mbps, right?)  So why can't I get my iwn0 device
> (Intel 5100) under FreeBSD going anywhere near that fast?
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
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