Intel 3945ABG - Horrible Signal

[Citsakots]

I have my wireless card working and it was very easy to set it up but the signal is horrible comparing it to Ubuntu. In the same essid Ubuntu gets 96% signal and FreeBSD gets 25% signal if I'm seating right next to the router.

/boot/loader.conf:
if_wpi_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_amrr_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"
wpifw_load="YES"
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1


P.S: The wireless does work. I can surf the web and such but the signal is so bad that if I take a couple of steps away I lose the signal.

[kamikaze]

Show us your output of
> ifconfig wpi0
and
> ifconfig wpi0 list scan

Maybe try setting
> ifconfig wpi0 txpower 50

[Business_Woman]

I have the same symptoms with Intel 4965...

[kamikaze]

And you have shown us the same amount of information.

Seriously, working crystal balls are in low supply. Only a minority of us can afford one. :P

[cmanns]

I have the same symptoms with Intel 4965...

Well the IWN driver is FreeBSD8 atm and it's not going to be released for quite awhile, I had quite abunch of issues with IWN driver.

Amongst the low signal I got hard locks and such, if you want to enjoy your wifi install OpenBSD4.4 thats where the iwn driver is being ported from :e

[SeanC]

Seriously, working crystal balls are in low supply. Only a minority of us can afford one. :P

Ha! The joys of remote debugging.