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Date:      Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:33:22 -0200
From:      AT Matik <asstec@matik.com.br>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems running ath with bgscan enabled
Message-ID:  <200710210033.22682.asstec@matik.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20071021003032.D2DA04500E@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20071021003032.D2DA04500E@ptavv.es.net>

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On Saturday 20 October 2007 22:30:32 Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
> My bgscan interval was the default 300 and almost every 5 minutes I
> would lose connectivity, often for over a minute. When I made the
> association between the bgscan interval and the drop-outs, I did an
> "ifconfig ath0 -bgscan" and things stabilized immediately. No further
> problems.
>
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xb4000000-0xb400ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on
> pci11 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
>
> This is really not acceptable for default behavior as it won't be clear
> to many how to fix it. Is it expected or is something wrong?
>

I believe it is so but as you already did, when you like to associate only =
to=20
the AP of your wpa config you should set -bgscan and eventually 'roaming=20
manual' also, if I am not wrong this is described in ifconfig's manpage


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