Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:36:39 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent fragility with if_wi, 802.11 adhoc/wep, and Tiger Message-ID: <42DDD4D7.8010602@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <42DCC637.2050103@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050719094905.F15510@fledge.watson.org> <42DCC637.2050103@FreeBSD.org>
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Alex Dupre wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >> I fairly regularly use 802.11 adhoc with WEP to communicate between my >> 6.x/7.x FreeBSD notebook using if_wi, and my Apple PowerBook running >> Mac OS X Tiger. A few days ago, when I updated from a June to a July >> HEAD revision, this became quite "fragile". >> I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, though. > > > I have a (not so) similar problem with my atheros based D-Link DWL-G650 > card with late CURRENTs. The problem is very strange: I can connect > stablily to my neighbor's 11g wireless network (even if the signal is > lower than my D-Link DI-624 AP) and I hardly can connect to my AP. When > it happens, the connection goes down after few seconds (no carrier) and > I cannot reconnect anymore. This used to work with older current (about > a month ago). I though the AP was broken, but I have a 11b device (voip > phone) that can connect without problems (yes, I tried to connect the > card in 11b mode, w/ & w/o wep, but it's the same). > Anyone seeing this? wi != ath ap mode (really sta mode) != adhoc mode You haven't provided any details of the setup that fails. Have you tried setting up your ath card in 11b? Samhome | help
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