Atheros CM9 108 mbit 802.11G turbo mode

marcusah

How do you turn on 802.11g turbo mode for RC2 of pfsense? Or is it not possible as I recall it used to be possible.

Thanks

sullrich

Download a freebsd 6.1 CD and see if it works with it. If it does we will investigate further but chances are FreeBSD 6.1 does not support this option in the driver / hal for your card as of yet.

marcusah

hello,

Well maybe it was freebsd 5 something that had that ability and I just never noticed until now… although I know the card can support 108 mbit 802.11g turbo mode.

I'll try and find out.

Thanks

hoba

my CM9's don't list 108 mbit turbo g modes either. however 108 mbit turbo a works fine.

my card has no countrylock:

$ ifconfig ath0 list channel
Channel 1 : 2412 Mhz 11g Channel 48 : 5240 Mhz 11a
Channel 2 : 2417 Mhz 11g Channel 50 : 5250 Mhz 11a Turbo
Channel 3 : 2422 Mhz 11g Channel 52 : 5260 Mhz 11a
Channel 4 : 2427 Mhz 11g Channel 56 : 5280 Mhz 11a
Channel 5 : 2432 Mhz 11g Channel 58 : 5290 Mhz 11a Turbo
Channel 6 : 2437 Mhz 11g Channel 60 : 5300 Mhz 11a
Channel 7 : 2442 Mhz 11g Channel 64 : 5320 Mhz 11a
Channel 8 : 2447 Mhz 11g Channel 149 : 5745 Mhz 11a
Channel 9 : 2452 Mhz 11g Channel 152 : 5760 Mhz 11a Turbo
Channel 10 : 2457 Mhz 11g Channel 153 : 5765 Mhz 11a
Channel 11 : 2462 Mhz 11g Channel 157 : 5785 Mhz 11a
Channel 36 : 5180 Mhz 11a Channel 160 : 5800 Mhz 11a Turbo
Channel 40 : 5200 Mhz 11a Channel 161 : 5805 Mhz 11a
Channel 42 : 5210 Mhz 11a Turbo Channel 165 : 5825 Mhz 11a
Channel 44 : 5220 Mhz 11a

squarepusher

I was investigating the same thing a couple of months ago. I read alot of discissions on mailinglists and got the impression that the guy that's responsible for the drivers Sam? doesn't think that turbo mode is a good thing on 2.4Ghz.
It works just fine in linux, and the HAL is the same for linux and BSD if I'm not misstaken, so I would assume that it's not implemented in the drivers.