Hi there,
I have a ral in hostap mode, which works wonderfully. With a high-quality
external antenna, I regularly get more than 20 MB/sec throughput. I don't
need an external Access Point anymore, the ral works great.
I also have a Nintendo Wii console. It has a built-in wireless card, which
you can use to connect the console to the Internet. While the console finds
and associates with the ral just fine, the actual data transfer seems
problematic. The built-in Wii Store functionality (which accesses
Nintendo's servers) is very slow, and online play is impossible. The
connection to the central infrastructure (Nintendo WFC) will often work,
but every time I'll get disconnected when I'm a few minutes into a game or
I can't even start or join a game.
One of the things I tried was connecting an Access Point (without any
router functionality, just a basic Access Point from 2003 or so) to my
wired network, and letting the Wii associate with that Access Point.
The result was that the Wii now had perfect connectivity.
The OpenBSD box has a ral0 interface, an sk0 interface to the Internet, and
an rl0 interface to the LAN. rl0 is attached to a small switch, and I
attached the Access Point to that switch. The Wii is subject to the same
NAT and firewall rules in both the ral0 and rl0 case. I've tried with and
without (WEP) encryption, both 11b and 11g mode.
I don't think signal strength is the cause here, because right next to the
Wii a laptop can connect just fine to both ral0 and the Access Point.
As you can see from the dmesg below, this is on OpenBSD 4.3, but 4.4-current
as downloaded yesterday doesn't seem to be different in this respect.
Could there be something in the Wii that makes it less happy with the ral
interface than with the Access Point?
OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC+RAIDAUTO) #0: Thu Apr 17 22:51:20 CEST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC+RAIDAUT
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real mem = 535621632 (510MB)
avail mem = 507777024 (484MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0520 (61 entries)
bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "1012.003" date 09/12/2005
bios0: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8V-X
acpi0 at bios0: rev 0
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC OEMB
acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S4) PS2K(S4) PS2M(S4) UAR1(S4) AC97(S4) USB1(S4)
USB2(S4) USB3(S4) USB4(S4) EHCI(S4) PWRB(S4) SLPB(S4)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpicpu0 at acpi0: PSS
acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+, 2002.84 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS
H,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,NXE,MMXX,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW
cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line
16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: AMD errata 86, 89, 97, 104 present, BIOS upgrade may be required
cpu0: Cool'n'Quiet K8 2002 MHz: speeds: 2000 1800 1000 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA K8HTB Host" rev 0x01
agp at pchb0 not configured
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA K8HTB AGP" rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX" rev 0xa1
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
skc0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010" rev 0x13,
Yukon Lite rev. A3 (0x7): irq 10
sk0 at skc0 port A: address 00:11:2f:9c:09:6b
eephy0 at sk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 5
ral0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 11, address
00:11:6b:3d:7f:6a
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527
rl0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 10, address
00:e0:4d:52:a8:d1
rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT6420 SATA" rev 0x80: DMA
pciide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt
pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133, channel
0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <HDS728080PLAT20>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 78533MB, 160836480 sectors
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
wd1 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0: <HDS728080PLAT20>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 78533MB, 160836480 sectors
wd1(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 11
uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 11
uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 10
uhci3 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 10
ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x86: irq 5
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "VIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8237 ISA" rev 0x00
iic0 at viapm0
iic0: addr 0x4a 00=3f 01=03 02=7f 03=07 05=30 06=c0 07=90 08=3f 09=03 0a=7f
0b=07 0d=30 0e=c0 0f=90 10=3f 11=03 12=7f 13=07 15=30 16=c0 17=90 18=3f 19=03
1a=7f 1b=07 1d=30 1e=c0 1f=90 20=3f 21=03 22=7f 23=07 25=30 26=c0 27=90 28=3f
29=03 2a=7f 2b=07 2d=30 2e=c0 2f=90 30=3f 31=03 32=7f 33=07 35=30 36=c0 37=90
38=3f 39=03 3a=7f 3b=07 3d=30 3e=c0 3f=90 40=3f 41=03 42=7f 43=07 45=30 46=c0
47=90 48=3f 49=03 4a=7f 4b=07 4d=30 4e=c0 4f=90 50=3f 51=03 52=7f 53=07 55=30
56=c0 57=90 58=3f 59=03 5a=7f 5b=07 5d=30 5e=c0 5f=90 60=3f 61=03 62=7f 63=07
65=30 66=c0 67=90 68=3f 69=03 6a=7f 6b=07 6d=30 6e=c0 6f=90 70=3f 71=03 72=7f
73=07 75=30 76=c0 77=90 78=3f 79=03 7a=7f 7b=07 7d=30 7e=c0 7f=90 80=3f 81=03
82=7f 83=07 85=30 86=c0 87=90 88=3f 89=03 8a=7f 8b=07 8d=30 8e=c0 8f=90 90=3f
91=03 92=7f 93=07 95=30 96=c0 97=90 98=3f 99=03 9a=7f 9b=07 9d=30 9e=c0 9f=90
a0=3f a1=03 a2=7f a3=07 a5=30 a6=c0 a7=90 a8=3f a9=03 aa=7f ab=07 ad=30 ae=c0
af=90 b0=3f b1=03 b2=7f b3=07 b5=30 b6=c0 b7=90 b8=3f b9=03 ba=7f bb=07 bd=30
be=c0 bf=90 c0=3f c1=03 c2=7f c3=07 c5=30 c6=c0 c7=90 c8=3f c9=03 ca=7f cb=07
cd=30 ce=c0 cf=90 d0=3f d1=03 d2=7f d3=07 d5=30 d6=c0 d7=90 d8=3f d9=03 da=7f
db=07 dd=30 de=c0 df=90 e0=3f e1=03 e2=7f e3=07 e5=30 e6=c0 e7=90 e8=3f e9=03
ea=7f eb=07 ed=30 ee=c0 ef=90 f0=3f f1=03 f2=7f f3=07 f5=30 f6=c0 f7=90 f8=3f
f9=03 fa=7f fb=07 fd=30 fe=c0 ff=90 words 00=3fff 01=03ff 02=7fff 03=07ff
04=00ff 05=30ff 06=c0ff 07=90ff 08=3fff 09=03ff 0a=7fff 0b=07ff 0c=00ff
0d=30ff 0e=c0ff 0f=90ff
spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR SDRAM ECC PC3200CL3.0
pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 HyperTransport" rev 0x00
pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 Address Map" rev 0x00
pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00
pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 Misc Cfg" rev 0x00
usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub4 at usb4 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83697HF rev 0x12
lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83697HF
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
raid0 at root: (RAID Level 1) total number of sectors is 154534656 (75456 MB)
as root
softraid0 at root
swapmount: no device
--
Jurjen Oskam
Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
