From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 19:06:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 8ADB616A41C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:06:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE4043D45 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:06:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.91] ([66.127.85.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j6IJ60ms018493 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <42DBFEC8.4050504@errno.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:11:04 -0700 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050327) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22=C1d=E1m_Szilveszter_dr=2E=22?= References: <05Jul18.130434cest.118130@fd.hif.hu> In-Reply-To: <05Jul18.130434cest.118130@fd.hif.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ural in 6.0-BETA1 [really ral problem, NOT ural] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:06:03 -0000 Ádám Szilveszter dr. wrote: > Hello, > > Erik Winge wrote on 2005.07.18 12:53:42: > > >>I experience more weirdness. It seems the card will disassociate from >>the ap if there is no network activity for some time. >> >>If I use the network, for instance streaming audio or having a >>mailprogram check mail regularly, everything works fine. However if I >>close all programs, and leave the computer alone for some minutes, it >>will lose the network connection. ifconfig then reports status:no >>carrier >> >>I have tried running "wpa_cli reassociate", but it doesn't find my ap, >>and I have to kill wpa_supplicant and restart it to reconnect. Is >>this a driver problem, or could it possibly be wpa_supplicant? > > > Unfortunately, I see similar symptoms with two ral(4) based cards ( > Conceptronic C54RC) in two laptops, one running 6.0-BETA, the other > 7.0-CURRENT, both from 16th July. I have not yet been able to determine > under what conditions the random dissassociations occur, but no network > traffic is one way to more reliably trigger it. After the disassociation > occurs, wpa_supplicant starts scanning, even finds the AP a couple of > times, but fails to reassociate until killed and restarted. The AP is a > Linksys WRT54G with original Linksys firmware, and I am using a > WPA-PSK-based setup. None of my ral cards work at all in 11g station mode. They authenticate but cannot associate. My ap's reject the associate request with error status 6. I believe the problem is mis-setting of IFS paramters. I've had no time to look carefully. Sam