From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 5:49:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB7937B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:49:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.melim.com.br (pop3.melim.com.br [200.215.110.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB3F43E4A for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ronanl@melim.com.br) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.melim.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260CDE0519 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:49:46 -0200 (EDT) Received: from praiadosamores.melim.com.br (praiadosamores.melim.com.br [200.215.110.20]) by mail.melim.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 20E26E0517 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:49:45 -0200 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:49:42 -0200 From: Ronan Lucio To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wireless Message-Id: <20030117114942.327dc839.ronanl@melim.com.br> Organization: Melim Internet X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I've having a problem with a FreeBSD wireless link connected to a Lucent AP500. This link has Orinoco radio cards in both sides. The problem is the wi0 interface in the FreeBSD-4.6-STABLE box hangs suddenly for some minutes and starts working. Some days it happens many times during the day. When the link is working fine, the wicontrol output show the relation quality/signal/noise: [ 35 85 50 ], but, when the link is hand, such output is: [ 0 0 50 ]. If I reboot the machine at this moment, the FreeBSD box starts up and everything works fine for sometime (about 1 ou 2 hours) more and it after that... it cames hanging the wi0 interface. Sometimes it stays some days without hang the interface, too. Ok, This is the problem. Talking with my wireless equipament syplier, he told me that the wi interface of FreeBSD systems is too old and works to WaveLAN devices, yet. He told that I should either downgrade the radio card firmware or to change the SO from FreeBSD to Linux with the driver wavelan2cs or orinoco2cs. My question is: Can it be true? Thank's Ronan Lucio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message