Re: USB wireless AP?
2008/4/23 Martes G Wigglesworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a particular reason that the USB adapter concept is needed for your application? Yes - there are no other ports to extend the (small, embedded) computer with. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB wireless AP?
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boris Kochergin wrote: Do you know about http://ralink.rapla.net/? The RT2500-based cards listed there are supported by the ural(4) driver. There's a discouraging comment about using them for access points in the man page, though: CAVEATS The ural driver does not support automatic adaptation of the transmit speed in IBSS and HostAP operating modes. In HOSTAP mode, you can have one roaming STA, or you can have several STAs if they stay in almost same TX/RX condition. This limitation is primarily due to ural (same applies to rum) hardware does not have per-packet (or at least per-peer) TX try/fail counters. This can't be fixd by driver. Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB wireless AP?
I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the rum driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious about one more thing: I wish to set up a b/g network, so both b and g devices can connect. Apparently this is set up via the mode argument to ifconfig, which accepts 11g and 11b but not the obvious 11bg. Any pointers on this? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB wireless AP?
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:57:28 am Ivan Voras wrote: I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the rum driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious about one more thing: I wish to set up a b/g network, so both b and g devices can connect. Apparently this is set up via the mode argument to ifconfig, which accepts 11g and 11b but not the obvious 11bg. Any pointers on this? You can either omit the mode argument altogether and get both supported by default, or just specify 11g, which will also support both. I typically omit the mode unless I want to limit things to only 11b. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rum driver panic [ was: Re: USB wireless AP? ]
John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:57:28 am Ivan Voras wrote: I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the rum driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious about one more thing: I wish to set up a b/g network, so both b and g devices can connect. Apparently this is set up via the mode argument to ifconfig, which accepts 11g and 11b but not the obvious 11bg. Any pointers on this? You can either omit the mode argument altogether and get both supported by default, or just specify 11g, which will also support both. I typically omit the mode unless I want to limit things to only 11b. Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow. For now, it looks like my fun won't last long: Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x12 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc053fd4a stack pointer = 0x28:0xcc218be8 frame pointer = 0x28:0xcc218c00 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 25 (irq11: ohci0) trap number = 12 panic: page fault Uptime: 38m49s Physical memory: 241 MB Dumping 36 MB: 21 5 #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:195 195 pcpu.h: No such file or directory. in pcpu.h (kgdb) bt #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:195 #1 0xc05d0f53 in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:418 #2 0xc05d114f in panic (fmt=Variable fmt is not available. ) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:572 #3 0xc07cf4fc in trap_fatal (frame=0xcc218ba8, eva=18) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:899 #4 0xc07cf780 in trap_pfault (frame=0xcc218ba8, usermode=0, eva=18) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:812 #5 0xc07d00d9 in trap (frame=0xcc218ba8) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:490 #6 0xc07b926b in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:139 #7 0xc053fd4a in rum_txeof (xfer=0xc1fcb000, priv=0xc20b7498, status=USBD_NORMAL_COMPLETION) at /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_rum.c:843 #8 0xc0559745 in usb_transfer_complete (xfer=0xc1fcb000) at /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdi.c:977 #9 0xc0542d79 in ohci_softintr (v=0xc1d37000) at /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/ohci.c:1436 #10 0xc05552e2 in usb_schedsoftintr (bus=0xc1d37000) at /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c:844 #11 0xc0544698 in ohci_intr1 (sc=0xc1d37000) at /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/ohci.c:1194 #12 0xc0544e61 in ohci_intr (p=0xc1d37000) at /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/ohci.c:1123 #13 0xc05b300b in ithread_loop (arg=0xc1d39220) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_intr.c:1036 #14 0xc05afeb6 in fork_exit (callout=0xc05b2e60 ithread_loop, arg=0xc1d39220, frame=0xcc218d38) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:783 #15 0xc07b92e0 in fork_trampoline () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:205 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB wireless AP?
Do you know about http://ralink.rapla.net/? The RT2500-based cards listed there are supported by the ural(4) driver. There's a discouraging comment about using them for access points in the man page, though: CAVEATS The ural driver does not support automatic adaptation of the transmit speed in IBSS and HostAP operating modes. -Boris Ivan Voras wrote: Hi, I'm planning to set up an AP by adding an USB wifi card to a 7.0-RELEASE machine, and I'm interested in a couple of things: - First, hardware compatibility - AFAIK only some cards support AP mode? Can anyone recommend such USB wireless hardware, preferably in terms of product names instead of chip names? I see the following cards in a local store: BANDRIDGE CWN4002G, CANYON WF-518D, CANYON WF-518, LINKSYS WUSB54GC. - Are there any tips tricks additional to the instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB wireless AP?
Ivan Voras wrote: Boris Kochergin wrote: Do you know about http://ralink.rapla.net/? The RT2500-based cards listed there are supported by the ural(4) driver. There's a discouraging comment about using them for access points in the man page, though: CAVEATS The ural driver does not support automatic adaptation of the transmit speed in IBSS and HostAP operating modes. That's too bad - it seems the Linsys' card is supported by ural. I looked around for Linux information on the same topic, and given the problems they have, I think I'll even settle for IBSS. Are there any practical differences between HOSTAP and IBSS when used by a very small number of users? I've never used IBSS, but I have enough spare 802.11 hardware to try it out. I'll let you know. -Boris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB wireless AP?
I would reference the link that I am about to list. I would also reference googling the topic, since there are quite a few USB wifi adapters that work, however, it seems a bit more difficult to find people who are using them as AP media. The atheros reference pdfs reference a different chipset than what we usually deal with on BSD ath driver. (5512, or some such.) I forgot about the prism based cards, which the following link is in references. http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2006-06/msg00034.html The SWEEX model LW053 is also compatible, however, it uses the rawlink RT2500USB chipset, so I am not sure how the access point functionality will work, since it may be suceptible to the previously referenced warnings within the driver manpage. Is there a particular reason that the USB adapter concept is needed for your application? On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 00:37 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: 2008/4/22 Martes G Wigglesworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I always atheros-based cards/interfaces. ath driver seems to be the defacto homegrown AP medium. Thanks, can you recommend an ath-based USB card? On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:18 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Boris Kochergin wrote: Do you know about http://ralink.rapla.net/? The RT2500-based cards listed there are supported by the ural(4) driver. There's a discouraging comment about using them for access points in the man page, though: CAVEATS The ural driver does not support automatic adaptation of the transmit speed in IBSS and HostAP operating modes. That's too bad - it seems the Linsys' card is supported by ural. I looked around for Linux information on the same topic, and given the problems they have, I think I'll even settle for IBSS. Are there any practical differences between HOSTAP and IBSS when used by a very small number of users? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
