Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:05:31 -1000 From: David Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros adhoc mode Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030908125955.029ac380@white.dogwood.com> In-Reply-To: <200309082243.h88MhcGF038767@ambrisko.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030907120108.03169860@mail.firetide.com>
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At 03:43 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: >David Cornejo writes: >| We're evaluating the Soekris 4801 and a 5212 based mini-PCI radio - It >| works well enough in infrastructure mode, but I'm having problems with >adhoc. >| >| When the radio is operating in adhoc mode, I see multicast traffic, but no >| unicast traffic. However, if I run tcpdump on the ath interface I get >| sporadic traffic. >| >| It's possible I'm still misconfigured, but the fact that putting the >| interface into promiscuous mode changes the behavior of the interface kinda >| points elsewhere. We have this application running fine on 4521s with both >| an & wi radios. >| >| Is this a known problem? > >Heh, Dave how's it going? If by chance you are doing ad-hoc to an >Aironet card I feel your pain. I have to go into promiscious mode >to get the Atheros card to talk to my Aironet ad-hoc network. Even >then it drops lots of packets. I'm not doing multicast. This is pretty much exactly what I'm seeing, except that I'm using Prism cards with the Atheros cards. I do have an Aironet network operating in the area though. >I haven't done any debugging. My Aironet cards work just fine it >the same ad-hoc network. Unfortunately, my app can't afford the Aironet cards, especially unfortunate with all I know about them. I'm trying to sanitize my config and get the debug stuff that Sam asked for last night and I'll post them ASAP. >This is with a relatively recent -current. A week old or so. > >Doug A.
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