On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM, James Turner <james@bsdgroup.org> wrote:
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> I've been trying to get my new ral(4) card to work like I would expect it
> to. I've read through most if not all the talk on misc@ about running these
> cards in hostap mode.  I would really like to replace my wi(4), which
> works really well, with my new ral(4) and enjoy 11g and later wpa.
> Sadly, the performance is just not there in both 11b or 11g modes.
>
> Some info, the ral(4) is a Gigabyte GN-WP01GS which is an RT2561S.  My
> basic hostname.ral0 reads: inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media
> autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap nwid my_net nwkey secret chan 11.
> I've enabled RAL_DEBUG in my kernel and selected one of the standard
> channels with the highest power.  This is on 4.2 -release + patches.  If
> anyone has any new or additional information that might be helpful I
> would greatly appreciate it, otherwise I guess I'll stick to my trusted
> wi(4).

Personally, I've given up on using OpenBSD as an AP--though I have for
years.  Back when I used wi, everything worked very well.  However,
802.11g drivers/cards work very poorly as APs.  While speed with them
can be good at times, different wireless clients performed erratically
and frequently the AP would lock up.  I have since moved on and now
use commercial APs.

Sorry if this is not what you were looking for.  I'd love to say
802.11g, OpenBSD and APs work swimmingly, but that has never been the
case for me.