From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 04:36:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 48F9B16A41F; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:36:08 +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 EE90B43D45; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:36:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.94] ([66.127.85.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j6K4a7ms027092 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <42DDD4D7.8010602@errno.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:36:39 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Dupre References: <20050719094905.F15510@fledge.watson.org> <42DCC637.2050103@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42DCC637.2050103@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Watson , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent fragility with if_wi, 802.11 adhoc/wep, and Tiger 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: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:36:08 -0000 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? Sam