hostap TX fix in 5.x [Fwd: Re: wi hostap speed]

hello
Sorry for long email ;)
Jiri


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: wi hostap speed
Date: 	Fri, 09 Jan 2004 01:37:05 +0100
From: 	Jiri Mikulas <konfer_at_mikulas.com>
To: 	Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com>
References: 	<3FFDE3A1.5090908_at_mikulas.com> 
<200401081533.27278.sam_at_errno.com>



hello again ;)

>
>Let me test here.  Fixing the speed is meaningless for hostap mode.
>
>  
>
I don't want to use fixed speed exactly, but only try to find, where 
should be problem,
because if I have media adhoc, it's running well on 11MBPs

>Can you tell me what device you're using on the station and what tool you're 
>using to test with (e.g. netperf). 
>
>  
>
I'v used wget on linux client with IBM wifi card with Prism2.5 chipset  
(sorry i dont know exact numbers of this card)
oposite to one AP (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #6: Thu Jan  8 17:29:53 CET 2004)
with the same IBM card  in hostap mode
wi1: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xe6001000-0xe6001fff irq 10 at device 10.0 
on pci0
wi1: 802.11 address: 00:10:c6:18:52:8e
wi1: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi1: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.1), Station (1.7.4)
wi1: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
and i t look like this:

--00:44:33--  http://10.27.0.2/5.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
          => `/dev/null'
Navazuje se spojení s 10.27.0.2:80... connected.
HTTP požadavek odeslán, program čeká na odpověď ... 200 OK
Délka: 645,169,152 [text/plain]
0% [                           ] 1,484,200    157.65K/s  ETA 1:06:27
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


than I tried similar test with two BSD boxes, the same BSD as on the 
first test  now acts as client
with Zcon XI-626 card
wi2: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xe6002000-0xe6002fff irq 12 at device 11.0 
on pci0
wi2: 802.11 address: 00:60:b3:69:ea:69
wi2: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi2: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.1), Station (1.7.4)
wi2: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps

oposite to AP 5.1-RELEASE-p11 #0: Tue Jan  6 09:14:03 CET 2004
with the same Zcom card in hostap mode
map02# wget -O /dev/null http://10.27.0.4/test.zip
--00:56:30--  http://10.27.0.4/test.zip
          => `/dev/null'
Connecting to 10.27.0.4:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 36,942,300 [application/zip]

7% 
[========>                                                                                                                      
] 2,710,352    106.53K/s    ETA 05:13^

when I switched mode to adhoc between this boxes it runs on 11MBPs 
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (DS/11Mbps <adhoc>)
wget test was

map02# wget -O /dev/null http://10.27.0.4/test.zip
--01:11:15--  http://10.27.0.4/test.zip
          => `/dev/null'
Connecting to 10.27.0.4:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 36,942,300 [application/zip]

14% [=================>                  ] 5,451,776    415.03K/s    ETA 
01:37^

there were no other clients associated on this APs  and both BSD boxes 
were not hardloaded
for better concept you can see our network structure there:

http://mik.vol.cz:8082/nagios/cgi-bin/statusmap.cgi?host=all
login: guest
passw: guest

the 5.2-CURRENT box is named "MAP02" , second one with 5.1-RELEASE-p11 
is "bluehillz" ,
linux client is not shown but is connected to MAP02

So it seems that is something wrong in hostap mode, because as I wrote  
in first email, on FBSD 4-x hostap mode work properly on 11MBps.
My friens who uses FBSD 5.1-REL on different geographical places has 
this problem too, so I think that problem is not caused by "local specifications"
Thanks for reply.
Jiri