Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:34:13 +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: <1223102053.27632.12.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20081004060745.GA48067@icarus.home.lan> References: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com> <1223099600.27632.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081004060745.GA48067@icarus.home.lan>
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On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 23:07 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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. > Yeah I believe I checked stable at the time, but I'm not subscribed to hackers so I wouldn't know about there. I'll check stable again now that you mention it.
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