From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 07:07:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9A116A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:07:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0BA743D1F for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:07:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from burntime@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2005 07:07:24 -0000 Received: from dsl-082-083-050-107.arcor-ip.net (EHLO localhost.localdomain) (82.83.50.107) by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 24 Jan 2005 08:07:24 +0100 X-Authenticated: #724894 From: Hendrik Spiegel To: lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu In-Reply-To: <20050124042356.3DD98A0641@csa.cs.okstate.edu> References: <20050124042356.3DD98A0641@csa.cs.okstate.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:07:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1106550443.744.13.camel@mars.planet> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: "FreeBSD questions \(Engl.\)" Subject: Re: ndis0: link down after idle time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:07:26 -0000 Hi, I use the same D_Link card as you do, although I use it successfully with the native ath driver. On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 22:23 -0600, lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.3-stable and have had limited success with a > d-link DWL-G520 card, rev B3 (atheros ar5213 chipset). I had hoped that > I would have purchased a card with a supported native driver (ath), You probably did ;) > The card works well, albeit only in 802.11b 11mb/s adhoc mode, I can reproduce this with the native driver. 11g is sometimes down to a few kBit and 500-1000ms when I switch to 11b speed is ok and times are 25-40ms. > that I can't figure out. After about an hour or so of idle time on the > link, the interface brings itself down and cannot be resurrected unless > I issue a command through ifconfig to bring the interface up again. Does > anyone else experience this problem and/or have a solution? I will watch this - I do not remember exactly if there were such problems. FreeBSD mars.local 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Jan 10 23:27:32 CET 2005 root@mars.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BTKERNEL i386 ath0@pci0:9:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a131186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:0f:3d:ab:9a:b6 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid LokalHorst 1:LokalHorst channel 4 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit