From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 05:56:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B00106568B for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 05:56:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01068FC17 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 05:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.185] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775EF5C2E7EF for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:52:55 +1000 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com> References: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:53:20 +1000 Message-Id: <1223099600.27632.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-5.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-comcen-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 775EF5C2E7EF.1E02C X-comcen-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comcen-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.1, required 3, RDNS_NONE 0.10) X-comcen-MailScanner-From: rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:56:18 -0000 On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:11 -0700, Yuri wrote: > I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within > 10 feet). > Gentoo Linux (with old AirLink101) connects to a particular encrypted > WEP network without any problems all the time. > FreeBSD (with ral0 device and native driver) connection is very > unstable, keeps disappearing, though network card shows signal level as > -90:-95. > dhclient fails to set up the card, often dhclient succeeds but all name > lookups fails. When internet connection is established all TCP > connections get dropped after 10-20 minutes or less. > > I feel like I hit some bug in FreeBSD WiFi networking support. > > Anyone has similar experience? > Yuri Yeah I had similar troubles on a laptop with an intel wifi (6.1 + 6.2). I posted something about a week or two back, but I didn't get any response here. Not sure where to go from here though, as I'm having similar troubles with the ral driver too (desktop- 6.3). Seems to be wpa supplicant from my troubleshooting. If I manually reassociated with the iwi it was ok, but didn't hold out- I was going to setup a script to run a check and do this. The ral driver works if I set it auto, but wpa supplicant will only work in manual mode. Catch 22 on that one...