From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 18:23:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E024106566B for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:23:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lonnelars@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206BB8FC12 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:23:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lonnelars@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f40so596123fka.11 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:23:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=8irHgH+afYJv0J6i7tk0C05Q8FvJOfczH85Aj13Dys0=; b=tHRZOYNDFiiWP2fMTd4MhIGZBiVTJ3awgWB+WUnx0V3oL6xbl/HAXgxfNFh4Gp/Lpk AF4hmQX3/1eHpeAXMMYsEInQ2mNvvc0vBexTJlC23OKihjPapOOtoiZYQPyPk+Vm+fVe /UdcOq1ffXJM4GGV4l5K6SG/AXXrzYdkVoC9Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=m2N8l0rzaFBOr35dlBsIoTNN9v4qHMFx8YQEX+CXT2GEGsdVmpLZOfqg3NsdztfKP1 gs9Mgy1vhC2AO2CVKkzsLWuuDNC7+gQkcetFtUnVeFi5QyPOnFYgKCt/JQa4LP6Gejxv 2bBNFU6p2IJWJuDuDOi54GVNQYyS09I+DrOIY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.181.197.6 with SMTP id z6mr93458bkp.119.1233338285943; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:58:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:58:05 +0200 Message-ID: From: Lars Lonne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: wireless signal strength X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:23:15 -0000 Hi. I have recently install FreeBSD-7.1 on my laptop. The laptop used to have windows and linux, but I have replaced linux with FreeBSD because I thought it looked very promising. However, I have one problem: the wireless signal strength seems to be significantly weaker when I am running FreeBSD. On windows I can connect and get online, but when I'm running FreeBSD it keeps connecting and disconnecting, or not even seeing the network at all. Also in linux it was never a problem. Is there something that can be done with this? In linux I was using wireless-tools (iwconfig) and dhclient, which worked fine. Are there perhaps other software that will work better than using ifconfig? /lars