Re: enable acpi

2005-04-02 Thread Nate Lawson
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 03/31/05 20:51 John Baldwin said the following: The problem is that the taskqueue_swi in 4.x doesn't have a thread context that can be slept on via tsleep(). The fix would be to create a kthread in which to run the ACPI tasks. 4.x already has one such kthread for the

Re: Fwd: 5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken

2005-04-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Matthew Dillon wrote: :The use of the XMM registers is a cpu optimization. Modern CPUs, :especially AMD Athlon and Opterons, are more efficient with 128 bit :moves then with 64 bit moves. I experimented with all sorts of :configurations, including the use of

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:50:52AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm looking at the impressive list of wireless network cards supported by FreeBSD here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN But, I have the specific interest of building an 802.11g WAP. I seem to

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:28:42AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I guess everything listed here, with a URL to an up-to-date list: http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of 108 Mbps. - Is

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of 108 Mbps. That's a vendor-specific mode. I strongly advice you _against_ using it, it's using at least one additional channel and only adds speed for

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:23:55PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: That's a vendor-specific mode. I strongly advice you _against_ using it, it's using at least one additional channel and only adds speed for very short distances. If you follow the common recommendation of leaving one channel

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:28:42AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I guess everything listed here, with a URL to an up-to-date list: http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts Another feature of some cards that I haven't found a clear picture of: Some cards have an

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Brian Reichert wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:50:52AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm looking at the impressive list of wireless network cards supported by FreeBSD here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN But, I have the specific interest of building an 802.11g WAP.

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Brian Reichert wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:28:42AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I guess everything listed here, with a URL to an up-to-date list: http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of 108 Mbps. That's a vendor-specific mode. I strongly advice you _against_ using it, it's using at least one additional channel

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 03:03, Brian Reichert wrote: Some cards have an antenna built right onto the card, and others seem to come with a remote antenna that hangs off of a six-foot (or so) cable. The vendors' arguments for the cable arrangment is that it allows for a more optimal placement of

Re: enable acpi

2005-04-02 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 04/02/05 14:05 Nate Lawson said the following: Dinesh Nair wrote: On 03/31/05 20:51 John Baldwin said the following: The problem is that the taskqueue_swi in 4.x doesn't have a thread context that can be slept on via tsleep(). The fix would be to create a kthread in which to run the ACPI

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Leffler wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of 108 Mbps. That's a vendor-specific mode. I strongly advice you _against_ using it, it's using at least one