On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Stephen Borrill wrote:
I've been running NetBSD 5.0 with Jared's ath patch on an EeePC 900A. Today
I tried using wi-fi in anger and saw I was getting average ping times of
1600ms (stddev 1416) and 3% packet loss (some ping times over 12000ms!). I
then tried -current (the open-source HAL) which was much better. So I
backported the current HAL to 5.0 and tried again. This gave a fantastic
performance improvement (1.2ms with 1.6ms stddev and 0% packet). I tried
the test a few times to check it was consistent.
I understand the reasons for not pulling this up to netbsd-5 especially
that we are at RC3 (I think: lack of testing on all platforms and problems
with TKIP), but hopefully this will be a useful datapoint.
How much pain would it be to include it in 5.0 as a compiletime
option? It would require people to compile a custom kernel, but
it at least opens that option