On 2008-11-14, STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:54:55 Juan Miscaro wrote: >> I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with >> OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral >> driver. I regularly need to bring down and then back up the interface >> with ifconfig. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do short of >> replacing the card? As an aside, I'm pondering going wired but >> plugging into a wireless bridge. Any recommendations on models? >> >> ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >> lladdr 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4 >> groups: wlan >> media: IEEE802.11 DS11 mode 11b hostap (autoselect mode 11b hostap) >> status: active >> ieee80211: nwid MYNETWORK chan 11 bssid 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4 100dBm >> inet6 fe80::218:f8ff:fe28:b9f4%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 >> inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> >> Thanks for listening, >> >> /juan > > I had a random ral USB device on a T60p ThinkPad, which was rock stable,
ural is different to ral, and there are also differences between the various chips (RT2560, RT2860 etc). also hostap is a different case to using it as a client..
