From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 19:29:50 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 BD5541065706 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:29:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2458FC19 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:29:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so105019nfh.33 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:29:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YIjIBuJnF/nl5NOx/Mb0VIGVm1E+BPxXa/tEkYpw6lk=; b=xOsp/w35C/pYZn8+CIIfVuTNcXzLkEVUatVdt6m5pn2RM26SQQmb24bcQVGW5F35/7 D048QlqTUWzlmg+58PCulcyBWHP9nvdo4Nm++Iw/PYSgvCAymKYk0vY4Sy/TGsCuU0CM WyATdSo6Prd3MB6Xo9qXZ435GrMk3papyBlwU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YUIv/CvBVmoTh4QJozLtnvNu1nK+INgxWY+3pwY6PNCl63Y+cdcn12oT0WSr5Y/jnL S9y+/5J5i4GNFAwYMS6QV7OZbA9seinp3AtIzNYi+MQYu2PSFYEi70poCNgCidVKxGoF 9ByCvqj4k38awE3e1JwtcuexMktiNGYyCLpQQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.112.1 with SMTP id k1mr1736114ebc.167.1233343789095; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:29:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:29:49 +0100 Message-ID: <3a142e750901301129w271f25f0kc9270ec3919005f0@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Lars Lonne Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 19:29:51 -0000 On 1/30/09, Lars Lonne wrote: > 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? > what driver? > /lars > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Paul