From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 03:40:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB50F37B401; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 03:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mail.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAFE43F85; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 03:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from [10.0.0.5] (adslle.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.102.11]) by mailbox.univie.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h65Adu7B202858; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:39:59 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:39:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030705122054.H693@korben.in.tern> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: unet 4261; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 cc: sam@freebsd.org Subject: Experiences with ath(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 10:40:11 -0000 Hi there, I just bought a Netgear WAG511 card and a Netgear WG602 Accesspoint. I run the card in 11g mode under current, and I'm having some problems: *) Powersavemode seems to be not supported at all (and thus it eats the battery like a "make world"): # ifconfig ath0 powersave on ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument *) Shared Key Authentication seems to be not supported either: # ifconfig ath0 authmode shared ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument *) If I turn on the debug.ieee80211 sysctl, I see the following messages in 30sec- to 2min-intervals: ieee80211_new_state: RUN -> AUTH ieee80211_new_state: AUTH -> AUTH ieee80211_new_state: AUTH -> ASSOC ieee80211_new_state: ASSOC -> RUN (I'm not sure if this is normal behaviour.) *) I'm seeing a lot of input errors on the interface: # netstat -i -I ath0 Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll ath0 1500 00:09:5b:41:8d:ac 2054 67646 2058 42 0 *) Finally, there seems to be a problem with interaction between the AP and my ADSL router (I'm not sure if this is a FreeBSD problem, I need to test with WinXP too). My LAN looks something like this: WLAN Client ))) ((( AP --- Switch --- ADSL router | | other hosts in LAN The ADSL router (a Speedtouch 510) does NAT. Everything seems to work fine, but after some time, all connections from the WLAN client to the outside world have died. I can connect to the other hosts in the LAN just fine, though, and there are no further messages in the log files. The quickest way to make it work again, is pulling the card out and plug it back it. Any ideas? regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/