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Date:      Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:30:40 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0-RC1: ral(4) driver broken?  network interruptions
Message-ID:  <681F27CD-851B-4901-AE65-C2AF4C1960CB@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <m34q764yxl.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
References:  <m34q764yxl.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

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On 24/10/2005, at 19:17, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have an oldish computer VIA KT333/Athlon XP board (i386) that I
> recently upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 (was rock solid) to 6.0-BETA3 and
> today to 6.0-RC1 (I rebuilt everything from scratch).
>
> I had to upgrade because there was no ral(4) driver for FreeBSD 5.4 =20=

> but
> only for 6.0, which I needed after I had switched from 3C900 Combo
> (802.3 whatever 10Base2) to Edimax EW-7128g (802.11b/g). The latter =20=

> card
> is based on RT2525 and RT2560 chips/modules. I'm using WPA-TKIP to
> connect it to an AVM Fritz!Box Fon WLAN.
>
> The computer is dual boot with SUSE Linux 9.3, where RA card is
> absolutely stable and does 48 Mbps without trouble.
>
> Booting FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 or -RC1, I constantly see lines like these
> from cvsup running on FreeBSD:
>
> Parsing supfile "/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile"
> Connecting to cvsup7.de.FreeBSD.org
> Connected to cvsup7.de.FreeBSD.org
> Server software version: SNAP_16_1g
> Negotiating file attribute support
> Exchanging collection information
> Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection
> Running
> TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed
> Will retry at 19:10:59
>
> and in my ssh client (running on Linux, logging in to that FreeBSD
> machine), with varying numbers:
>
> Disconnecting: Bad packet length 3626208547.
>
> Something in TKIP, WLAN or ral appears to be hosed. Anyone else =20
> seeing this?

Yes I see the same thing with iwi, it looses connection now and then. =20=

Heavy traffic alone doesn't do it, but starting VNCviewer kills it =20
every time. A killall -1 wpa_supplicant gets the connection back on =20
track...
Other end here is a Dlink DI624+ so the mix is totally different from =20=

yours...

S=F8ren Schmidt
sos@FreeBSD.org






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