From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Oct 30 20:22:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E4C37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from bam.katlar.com (host.katlar.com [206.80.108.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9E243E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:22:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from larryw@katlar.com) Received: from katlar.com (localhost.katlar.com [127.0.0.1]) by bam.katlar.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id g9SLdL2q086239 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from larryw@katlar.com) Received: from 66.150.9.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user larryw) by new.host.name with HTTP; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:39:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <60407.66.150.9.2.1035841162.squirrel@new.host.name> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:39:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: PCMCIA/Wireless freezes and/or disconnects From: "Lawrence Wickline" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Reply-To: larryw@katlar.com X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am having some problems with my wireless connection disconnecting me from the network. first the gory details. I am using a dell Inspiron 8200 running KDE3 on 4.7 RELEASE-p1. My NIC is a Lynksys WPC11version 2.5 and my access point is a Belkin gateway/firewall/hub. What happens is after the card is initialized everything works fine. It does take a few seconds for the card to be found and loaded but it does come on ok and work. In my pccard.conf file I call a script that executes the various wicontrol commands to set key and net.... Now after the card has been up for about 5 minutes I stop being able to make new connections. I have noticed that applications that were started immediately after the card comes up stay connected. like if i open a ssh connection it will continue to work and if I fire up Netscape and continually click on links it will still work. But if I actual stop and read a page for more than a few minutes Netscape stops being able to open up a new connection. I always can connect to the access point but I figure that is because the connection is always in use. But I cant connect beyond. If I rerun the configuration script I call in pccard.conf the problem goes away for about 5 mins before appearing again. last thing is the card works fine in windows on the same hardware. This has to be a BSD thing. Does anyone have any idea why this is going on or have a fix? This is pretty much the last hurdle I have to getting fully on BSD on my laptop. (minus getting DVD to play well:)) PS. It does also take several (10-15) seconds for the OS to detect the card has been removed. I did find this as a problem that had been reported to this mailing list previously. Is it possible these problems are related? Thanks, Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message