Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:41:29 -0400 From: David Gurvich <david.gurvich@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wireless network with wpa Message-ID: <20080715134129.1b43b439@verizon.net>
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Hello, I would like to know what might be happening with a particular network configuration. Wireless router using wpa, wired router provides dhcp and connects to DSL modem. The wireless card involved is a mini-pci intel 2100 using the if_ipw driver. I could not get this card working at all with 6.3, though it seems to work with 7. =46rom time to time, the ability to resolve the address of the wired router disappears along with DNS resolution. If I 'wpa_cli reassociate' it comes back. The most confusing issue is that the connection to the wire= less router is never lost. I can always ping the wireless router and access the control panel with a web browser. =20 A computer connected directly to the wired router had issues with the ethernet using FreeBSD and Linux, but not Solaris. An apple computer using Gentoo/OSX had no issues with either wired or wireless. I cannot replicate the issue, it simply recurs through use. OSX had no pro= blem with either wpa or wired connection. Solaris only had issues with unsupported hardware. Linux on the x86 box had problems with wired connections, but none on the powermac. I suspect the 3c905b card in the x86 card may be a problem, though there have been no issues since Solaris had been installed. Any ideas on the problem are welcome.
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