Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:53:20 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support? Message-ID: <1223099600.27632.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com> References: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com>
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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...
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