From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 06:07:47 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 C110B106568D for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:07:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F918FC12 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:07:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id NVo61a00D0EPchoA6W7nAM; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:07:47 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id NW7l1a0042P6wsM8MW7mfH; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:07:46 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=kgCvJx0R-FAA:10 a=UjR37lisbM4A:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=7sRUS4uvZIo8srgQElIA:9 a=6yxU8UlJH-PxkipkLag6J0-x6WUA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B407C941A; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:07:45 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Da Rock Message-ID: <20081004060745.GA48067@icarus.home.lan> References: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com> <1223099600.27632.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1223099600.27632.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:07:47 -0000 On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 03:53:20PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > 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). Have you tried the freebsd-stable and freebsd-hackers lists? Supplicant has been discussed there in the recent and late past. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |