Le 18 sept. 07 ` 18:41, Alessandro Roncari a icrit :
Hello
I have the following issue with ralink wireless card, acting in hostap
mode
hardware: ral-rt2561s board acting as access point on a Soekris
Net4501, running OpenBSD 4.0.
can't seem to make it work like it should, even with a 9dBi antenna
the
signal is very weak and much weaker than my old netgear AP. weak and
unstable
everything is set up correctly
# dmesg | grep ral0
ral0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 10,
address 00:12:0e:61:80:98
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT5225
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:12:0e:61:80:98
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect hostap (autoselect mode 11a
hostap)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid xxx chan 11 bssid 00:12:0e:61:80:98 nwkey
xxxx
100dBm
inet 192.168.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.x.xxx
inet6 fe80::212:eff:fe61:8098%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
but it seems it's all working at very small % of its power.
question is: is this a known bug in the driver?? or is there
anything I
could do to improve the situation?
Update to OpenBSD 4.1 or -current, there were some changes in ral(4)
code.
e.g.
replace rssadapt(9) with amrr for automatic rate control.
as a side-effect, this should fix all the "bogus xmit rate" panics
users have been complaining about for some time when operating in
HostAP mode.
Thanks,
Alessandro
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