[Gllug] 802.11b/g cards

[Doug Winter]

Russell Howe wrote:
> I'm sure I read somewhere that the Atheros cards don't have much in the
> way of onboard processing (except hardware WEP, which doesn't help much
> :) so for some devices it may place undue load on the host CPU.
> 
> 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 
from 802.11g, so I suspect your problem is something else.

> 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?

Cheers,

Doug.

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