Re: new wi0 slowness

[Matt Haught]

Alright, I have disabled IPSec and updated the firmware to read:
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9)

sysctl kern.wi_txerate=0 gives: sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.wi_txerate'

I reran my test and I am still transfering at ~870Kb/s. netstat -i -I wi0 shows this after the transfers:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
wi0 1500 <Link#1> 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0 29847 0 53331 59 557
wi0 1500 192.168.168 wifi 59 - 52085 - -

Here is something odd that I found: I set the mediaopt to adhoc in rc.conf and rebooted again, and here is what I found (I was not sure how to clear the counters that you wanted in netstat so I rebooted):

The same files transfer at ~5600Kb/s, so its back where it was with the old driver. Here is netstat -i again after this run:

Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
wi0 1500 <Link#1> 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0 27497 0 51230 13 452
wi0 1500 192.168.168 wifi 61 - 51200 - -

So there are 4 times more Oerrs in hostap mode (59 to 13), and just a few more collisions.

I almost forgot, here are ifconfig wi0 outputs:
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.168.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.168.255
ether 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap> (DS/2Mbps <host
ap>)
status: associated
ssid HaughtDom 1:HaughtDom
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

and with adhoc:
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.168.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.168.255
ether 00:05:5d:fa:0e:b0
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (DS/11Mbps <adho
c>)
status: associated
ssid HaughtDom 1:HaughtDom
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

I can also start a transfer test in hostap mode (~670Kb/s) and use ifconfig to switch over to adhoc, and after a second or two while my laptop switches over, it transfers at ~5600Kb/s. I don't use wicontrol at all. My transfer test is just 67MB of mp3s off the fbsd machine. If you need any more info, just drop me a message.

--Matt

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