Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:55:44 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Can't connect to wireless network with recent -CURRENT Message-ID: <20030703032544.GP29066@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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I've just upgraded my laptop to a recent -CURRENT, and since then I've
been having a lot of network problems. Here's a rough chronology:
- Machine is a Dell Inspiron 7500, which I've been using with releases
4 and 5 of FreeBSD without problems for the last 3 years. It's
usually connected to my house 802.11b network, which is run by an
old 486 in ad-hoc mode, no WEP. I use DHCP to set up the
connection.
- Things worked fine up to my last kernel:
Jun 26 14:03:43 kondoparinga kernel: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun May 11 13:25:03 CST 2003
- On 28 June, I upgraded to the then -CURRENT. I had a lot of trouble
getting things working, including the following from the gateway
machine:
Jun 29 09:35:15 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.109.197.199 from 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
Jun 29 09:35:15 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.109.197.199 to 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPDECLINE on 192.109.197.199 from 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.109.197.199: declined.
Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.109.197.199 to 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
Nothing was mentioned in the log files on the laptop.
- I managed to connect, however, and things worked for a while, but
the machine kept freezing. I tried with a 100 Mb/s Ethernet card,
and it had problems too. With both network cards, it reported
various error messages which I didn't write down because I thought
they would be logged; unfortunately they weren't. The one from wi0
is still occurring:
wi0: bad alloc 3b4 != ff, cur 0 nxt 0
- I built a new kernel and world on 1 July. Since then I haven't had
any trouble with the system freezing up, but and was no longer able
to connect at all with the wireless card. After booting, I get:
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe04:93a%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ether 00:02:2d:04:09:3a
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
status: associated
ssid Netname 1:Netname
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
However, no traffic comes through.
It's pretty clear that it's this laptop: I have other machines on the
net which work without problems, and this machine also works if I boot
it with 4.8-STABLE.
Any thoughts?
Greg
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