Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:19:36 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 and atheros .... Message-ID: <474C3588.4030900@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <20071116200903.A1EE84500F@ptavv.es.net> References: <20071116200903.A1EE84500F@ptavv.es.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 11/16/2007 14:09, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:57:44 -0600 >> From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> >> >>>>>> 2) I get disconnected every night from my wireless router at home.> >>>>>> 99% of the time it happens after I've gone to bed. Once or twice...> >>>>>> while I was sitting in front of it. It just disassociates? >>>>> Try 'ifconfig ath0 -bgscan'. Something causes my card to lose >>>>> association periodically when the background scan is in progress. >>>> Are you saying try the above *after* I've been disconnected? Or is it> >>>> an attempt to reproduce the disconnect? >>> No. Try it as soon as your system comes up. >> Oh, I see. Would it be sufficient to place it in my rc.conf: >> ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP -bgscan" > > Yes. This should do the same thing. I didn't do it so I would notice if > the behavior changed. Just as a follow up.... After making the above change, I have not noticed this problem occurring. So it appears as though this has fixed it. Thanks. :) > >>> It disables the regular >>> background scan for APs that, by default, happens every 5 minutes. Note> >>> that I don't see my association go down on every scan, but turning this> >>> off seems to prevent the disassociation from ever happening. I have >>> confirmation from at leat two others with the same Atheros chip-set tha> t >>> this fixed their recurrent disconnects. (It certainly fixed mine.) >>> >>> Note that this change will have a negative effect if you are roaming or> >>> your environment changes in some way. >> I do no roaming. > > So turning off background scanning should have no effect on you. -- Regards, Eric [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHTDWIngSDRM3IXUoRAgTcAJ4nJIwfywsF8x8FSNo95ybHgAiESwCgsAE6 fhrWqv1swtMqFXItTuIa3xE= =stE3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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