[Gllug] 802.11b/g cards

[Russell Howe]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:53:05AM +0000, Doug Winter wrote:
> >I'm pretty sure that's why my Soekris net4801 only gets 700Kbit/s when
> >doing 802.11g, for example. This needs investigating closer, however.
> 
> I've got a couple of these cards, and I get the expected performance 

On a 266MHz Geode (x86 clone) which is swamped by 40Mbit/s of ethernet
traffic?

> from 802.11g, so I suspect your problem is something else.

To be fair, it could well be aerial placement and a host of other
things. I haven't properly investigated yet (there's a lot of running up
and down stairs if I lose wifi connectivity :)

> >The OpenBSD folks have reverse-engineered this (and so has someone else,
> >according to a post on lkml) so it's now possible to run 802.11g using
> >free software.
> 
> woo.  got a link?

I knew someone'd ask that...

Finally found it in my browser history, although if you're looking for a
downloadable drop-in chunk of code for madwifi I think the closest
you'll get is the OpenBSD CVS tree...

http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/

The OpenBSD ath(4) man page:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4

Some Linux nut's duplicate effort: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/7/140

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