From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 01:16:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C3316A420 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:16:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62D64792D for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:11:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.248] (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k2AHBTo7076510 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <4411B421.5000603@errno.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:15:13 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter de Rooij References: <43F9E6B4.3040309@derooij.org> <43F9F4AD.3070107@errno.com> <43FA61A4.8030406@derooij.org> <141fde50602280533m7460ada3i@mail.gmail.com> <440515B6.1080202@errno.com> <141fde50603020907q348d037bn@mail.gmail.com> <141fde50603100811x937472dj@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <141fde50603100811x937472dj@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ral/wpa_supplicant drops after successful WPA negotiation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:16:21 -0000 Peter de Rooij wrote: > On 02/03/06, Peter de Rooij wrote: >> >> So I got a new card (partly because it's flaky under WinXP as well), >> atheros based. >> Added if_ath_load=YES to load.conf, and the card is detected. Beyond >> that, alas still no connection. In fact, the connection is sometimes >> associated, but never even gets to EAPOL negotiation; time-out before >> then. The naked eye suggests it immediately drops from "UP" back to >> "DOWN"; in fact I also saw several "ath0: 2 link states coalesced" >> messages. >> >> [...] is this the bug with the unexpected timer trigger after all? > > In fact, the link kept going down even without wpa. Every few seconds > or so. ping showed a 7% packet loss. And under XP it still worked > reasonably well. > > Anyway, I still don't know what the problem was, but it disappeared > when replacing the AP (the old one kept losing all settings from flash > -- I decided it was at the end of its physical life). The new one > connected in one go (maybe 3 minutes, including reboot to see if > rc.conf and looader.conf changes worked). > > Let me know if there's interest to dig deeper -- the symptoms aren't > all consistent with an AP failure. My curiosity may prod me to do so > in the interest of improved code. Sorry I have no context here. Sam