From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 23 18:53:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AA410656C4; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:53:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) Received: from hunter.Sisis.de (mail.oclc.de [193.31.11.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EE88FC17; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:53:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.Sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03269; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:44:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) Received: from ppp-93-104-42-52.dynamic.mnet-online.de(93.104.42.52) by hunter.Sisis.de via smap (V2.1) id xma003243; Mon, 23 Mar 09 19:43:46 +0100 Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id n2NIrLFq002786; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:53:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to matthias.apitz@oclc.org using -f Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:53:21 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: Bruce M Simpson Message-ID: <20090323185321.GA2352@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090317103650.GA6156@rebelion.Sisis.de> <49BF7DE4.4010804@incunabulum.net> <20090317104548.GB6182@rebelion.Sisis.de> <49BFF258.4020207@freebsd.org> <20090323182310.GA1825@rebelion.Sisis.de> <49C7D89A.6070502@incunabulum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <49C7D89A.6070502@incunabulum.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (i386) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Sam Leffler , "Sean C. Farley" Subject: Re: kern/132722: [ath] Wifi ath0 associates fine with AP, but DHCP or IP does not work X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:54:02 -0000 El día Monday, March 23, 2009 a las 06:44:42PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > >I went today evening with my EeePC and CURRENT on USB key > >to that Greek restaurant; DHCP does not get IP in CURRENT either; > >this is somehow good news, isn't it :-) > > > > This may be orthogonal, but: > A lab colleague and I have been seeing a sporadic problem where the > ath0 exhibits the symptoms of being disassociated from its AP. We are > running RELENG_7 on the EeePC 701 since the open source HAL merge. > In the behaviour we're seeing, we don't see any problem with the > initial dhclient run, the ath0 just seems to get disassociated within > 5-10 minutes of associating. > > If we leave 'ping ' running in the background, we don't > see this problem. ... This must be a complete different problem, because in my case the AP stays (at least what ifconfig shows) always associated, but don't get offered IP addr; matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/