Slow upload on Android devices (edit: all devices)

stephenw10 · Mar 18, 2014, 5:50 PM

How can I power up the card without an OS?

Disconnect the boot media from the board, turn it on.
Check that the wifi card isn't already broadcasting stuff.

Steve

Legion · Mar 19, 2014, 12:30 PM

Ah, I get it. Ok did that, nothing. Both ap signals drop to nothing so the card isn't broadcasting independently of pfsense.

I did some debugging stuff yesterday using the wlandebug tool. I obviously left some flags set, because when I switched on the monitor attached to pfsense it was full of "pwr save q overflow, drops n" messages, where n is a number. That's all through my system logs too. The internet points to some threads about that, some involving Adrian. I'll read more when I have time.

My atheros card is physically underneath another Intel triple nic card so I didn't remove that card and have a look at the atheros. I will wait until I get a new antenna in a week or two. It might be tight fitting the antenna leads under the Intel, hippie it works.

Legion · Jul 8, 2014, 2:00 PM

While answering someone else's post in another thread, one thing that jumped out at me regarding my seeing two wifi broadcasts (one anonymous) is my listing of ifconfig contains two interfaces related to my wifi:

ath0
ath0_wlan0

The latter is the one that I use as my wifi interface. The former is part of a list of "raw interfaces", consisting of ath0, re0, re1, em0, em1, em2 amongst others. On top of those raw interfaces is where I've built my actual interfaces, e.g. wlan_ath0, em1_vlan2, …, em1_vlan8. So I'm guessing that raw ath0 is the one I'm seeing being broadcast. Where are those configured? Can I disable that one somehow? Will that also kill my ath0_wlan0?

The only ones that show up in my pfSense GUI interfaces are the named ones, corresponding to the wlan_ath0, em1_vlanx, etc. The raw ones are the options that I get to pick from in the Network Port drop-down combos when assigning or creating a new interface.

It doesn't present any issues having this second anonymous wifi broadcast, just annoys the pedant in me.

stephenw10 · Jul 8, 2014, 3:55 PM

That's just how it works I FreeBSD. I have a similar 'parent' inerface shown in ifconfig. The ath driver/hardware can support multiple virtual access points and each is represented by a different interface. In pfSense the interfaces are named athX_wlanX which makes it easier to read IMHO. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

Steve