--- Johan Torin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 03:07, b h wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a (slightly older, but still snazzy) > generic > > acting as my gateway - see dmesg at bottom > > > > my laptop internal wired NIC was acting funny, so > I > > thought I'd try wireless to network through my > net4801 > > gateway. Never using my wireless card before on > the > > soekris (sat in the machine dormant for a year > never > > configured), I thought I'd finally try out the > > excellent wireless support in OpenBSD. > > > > Following the man page, I have > > > > # cat /etc/hostname.ath0 > > inet 10.0.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect > > mediaopt hostap nwid my_net chan 11 > [...] > > Yes, this is a gotcha the man-page doesn't mention. > The ath driver is only capable of using 11b, so add > 'mode 11b' to your hostname.ath/ifconfig line and it > should work. > > /Johan >
Thank you, that seemed to work for connecting at "b". Although you kind of mentioned it, I'd like to increase support for the fact that someone with more diff/man page skills than me *should really update that*. It is very misleading (and disappointing) - as the manpage is seems very clear in describing support for all three of a/b/g for 5212. Or mention it in the bugs section. If it's relevant, the distributor of my minipci card was netgate. I know I'm running an older system, but I tried looking through cvsweb, and I didn't think I saw any driver changes since my system was installed, but apologies if its been fixed since. Also, don't know whether I can support it, but just curious what would it require to fix this? Reyk must already have a card with the chipset since it works a little bit right? thanks b Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
