Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:09:03 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 and atheros .... Message-ID: <20071116200903.A1EE84500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:57:44 CST." <473DF638.4030609@computer.org>
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--==_Exmh_1195243743_81424P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:57:44 -0600 > From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> > > >>>> 2) I get disconnected every night from my wireless router at home.> > >>>> 99% of the time it happens after I've gone to bed. Once or twice...> > >>>> while I was sitting in front of it. It just disassociates? > >>> Try 'ifconfig ath0 -bgscan'. Something causes my card to lose > >>> association periodically when the background scan is in progress. > >> Are you saying try the above *after* I've been disconnected? Or is it> > >> an attempt to reproduce the disconnect? > > > > No. Try it as soon as your system comes up. > > Oh, I see. Would it be sufficient to place it in my rc.conf: > ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP -bgscan" Yes. This should do the same thing. I didn't do it so I would notice if the behavior changed. > > It disables the regular > > background scan for APs that, by default, happens every 5 minutes. Note> > > that I don't see my association go down on every scan, but turning this> > > off seems to prevent the disassociation from ever happening. I have > > confirmation from at leat two others with the same Atheros chip-set tha> t > > this fixed their recurrent disconnects. (It certainly fixed mine.) > > > > Note that this change will have a negative effect if you are roaming or> > > your environment changes in some way. > > I do no roaming. So turning off background scanning should have no effect on you. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1195243743_81424P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHPfjfkn3rs5h7N1ERAgutAJ4sSAmcW7oOyRTGdllNV/y1ZbZfKACdEykm edBRBY92hn+sWtgN8Q7IlvQ= =OhsN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1195243743_81424P--
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