Re: ath_hal ndis :/

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:49:46 -0700
Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> wrote:

> Dillon wrote:
> > Have you tried ath on 6? I'd try that before screwing around with
> > ndis. ath in 6 is much more feature full then in 5.
> 
> Channel 6 is in fact the only channel you can use turbo mode in 11g. 
> However--as I've said many times--using turbo mode in 11g requires
> that the ap detect non-turbo stations in the vicinity and
> automatically drop out of turbo.  This switching back+forth between
> turbo and non-turbo operation is termed...dynamic turbo.  Note this
> is different from...static turbo...where the ap and station do not
> switch in+out of turbo operation.  There are other things to
> understand about turbo mode but for now you only need to know that
> the ath driver does not support dynamic turbo mode (in 11a or 11g)
> but does support static turbo mode (available only in 11a).  Hence if
> he wants to use turbo in 11g then he must use the ndis driver.

What would be the channel settings for 11a in turbo mode?
Does it really support 54mbit throughput and did you do any benchmarks
on it?

Cheers
Marcin


> > 
> > Bachilo Dmitry wrote:
> > 
> >> Ð’ Ñ_ообщении от Среда 28 СентÑ_брь 2005
> >> 09:36 João Mamede напиÑ_ал(a):
> >>  
> >>
> >>> hi I'm trying to set up a d-link dwl-g520 108Mbitps card in my
> >>> freeBSD server I cvsup'ed and compiled(again) everything today
> >>> however ath_hal doesn't suport super G for 11g however i was
> >>> willing to try ndis, if_ndis compiles fine and loads fine however
> >>> I don't have any ndis0 to work with ifconfig
> >>> João Mamede
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> >> FreeBSD 6-CURRENT contains ndisgen utility witch allows you to
> >> simply convert Windows drivers inty .ko file. You will only need
> >> then to kldload <driver>_sys.ko file to have an ndis0 device if
> >> your ifconfig. No need to recompile kernel with ndis nor with ath
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