From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 06:12:31 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 5860A16A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:12:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: from andxor.it (relay.andxor.it [195.223.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2279143D46 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:12:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 89778 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 06:12:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.101?) (a.premoli@andxor.it@81.174.31.42) by andxor.it with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 06:12:27 -0000 Message-ID: <42DDEB35.7080509@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:12:05 +0200 From: Alex Dupre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Leffler References: <20050719094905.F15510@fledge.watson.org> <42DCC637.2050103@FreeBSD.org> <42DDD4D7.8010602@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <42DDD4D7.8010602@errno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 06:12:31 -0000 Sam Leffler wrote: >> 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 Yup, I said *not so* similar, but always related to 802.11 networks. I just wanted to know if other people had this issue. > You haven't provided any details of the setup that fails. Have you > tried setting up your ath card in 11b? As I said in the last phrase, yes, I tried. I tried changing channels, modes, wep encryption, AP distance, but without success. I can run the debug tests you want, just tell me what output you need, so that I'll not overflow you with useless information. -- Alex Dupre