On 14 Nov 2008 at 21:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-11-14, STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:54:55 Juan Miscaro wrote: > >> I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with > >> OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral > >> driver. I regularly need to bring down and then back up the > >> interface with ifconfig. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do > >> short of replacing the card? As an aside, I'm pondering going wired > >> but plugging into a wireless bridge. Any recommendations on models? > >> > >> ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > >> lladdr 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4 > >> groups: wlan > >> media: IEEE802.11 DS11 mode 11b hostap (autoselect mode 11b > >> hostap) status: active ieee80211: nwid MYNETWORK chan 11 > >> bssid 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4 100dBm inet6 > >> fe80::218:f8ff:fe28:b9f4%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet > >> 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > >> > >> Thanks for listening, > >> > >> /juan > > > > I had a random ral USB device on a T60p ThinkPad, which was rock > > stable, > > ural is different to ral, and there are also differences between the > various chips (RT2560, RT2860 etc).
on closer examination, mine are rum... > also hostap is a different case to using it as a client.. that makes sense, but to what extent are they different? (especially if the symptoms appear very similar)
