Hello,

I have this wireless card:

cbb0: wait took 0.013926s
ath0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
cbb0: wait took 0.015599s
ath0: interrupting at 11
ath0: creating bss 00:0f:3d:ac:f9:2a


It's a D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 PCMCIA card. When using it in netbsd 
signal is very bad. Laptop and access-point are in the same room. Not to 
mention that booting windows and checking signal strength shows 98%. 
Here is wlanctl output:

ath0: mac 00:0f:3d:af:15:94 bss 00:0f:3d:af:15:94
         node flags 0000
         ess <GIRSA>
         chan 6 freq 2437MHz flags 00e0<cck,ofdm,2.4GHz>
         capabilities 0011<ess,privacy>
         beacon-interval 100 TU tsft 3207782785 us
         rates [*1.0] *2.0 *5.5 6.0 9.0 *11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0
         assoc-id 0 assoc-failed 0 inactivity 0s
         rssi 35 txseq 0 rxseq 0


My laptop has also an integrated iwi card that works fine:

iwi0: mac 00:0f:3d:af:15:94 bss 00:0f:3d:af:15:94
         node flags 0000
         ess <GIRSA>
         chan 6 freq 2437MHz flags 04e0<cck,ofdm,2.4GHz,dynamic cck-ofdm>
         capabilities 0011<ess,privacy>
         beacon-interval 100 TU tsft 4422349185 us
         rates *1.0 *2.0 *5.5 6.0 9.0 *11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 [54.0]
         assoc-id 0 assoc-failed 0 inactivity 0s
         rssi 226 txseq 0 rxseq 3847


I saw in Windows that this card has 3 modes of operation regarding power 
consumption: low, medium and high and I beleive the problem it's somehow 
  related to this.

Any hints ?
Thanks,
Mihai