From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 20:11:52 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 242C8106568A for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:11:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell.rawbw.com (shell.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDF28FC0A for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:11:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (c-67-188-126-36.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.188.126.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.rawbw.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m93KDKw2005551 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:11:50 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081001) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:11:52 -0000 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 FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Sep 27 15:23:29 PDT 2008 yuri@xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386