From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 00:03:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 B3CF816A41F for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:03:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531CE43D58 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:03:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 84374117C2; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id B94511A08A9; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03:17 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17339.4293.673806.446317@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03:17 -0500 To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20060104005134.k60dxcrrcw0c40kk@netchild.homeip.net> References: <17337.50303.811554.900031@canoe.dclg.ca> <43B9C7F1.5030303@cs.unisa.edu.au> <20060104005134.k60dxcrrcw0c40kk@netchild.homeip.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 18) "Social Property" XEmacs Lucid Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Gilbert Subject: Re: dhclient ignoring link on wi0 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, 04 Jan 2006 00:03:24 -0000 >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Leidinger writes: [various problems with wi, deleted] Alexander> The problem is, that the wi driver isn't ported to the Alexander> current WLAN infrastructure. There's no documentation Alexander> available for the WLAN infrastructure, so you have to read Alexander> the source (the ath driver is the de-facto reference driver Alexander> for the WLAN stuff), search the net and if nothing helps, Alexander> ask sam@FreeBSD.org some well thought questions. I also thought that someone might have comments about a wi0 as an access point. This used to work, but all clients (even windoze) seem to loose association every 20 to 40 minutes (although the timing is random it seems). Alexander> If you have the time and energy to have a look at porting Alexander> the wi driver to (at least parts of) the current WLAN Alexander> framework, all wi users would appreciate some patches... Not that I'm afraid of development, but I'm unfamilliar with the difference between the revisions of acceptable wifi behaviour. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================