From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 20:25:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DA437B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E5543FF3 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7EACF5269E; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:55:44 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:55:44 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: FreeBSD current users Message-ID: <20030703032544.GP29066@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ws8gospyWrtsiNyw" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Subject: Can't connect to wireless network with recent -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 03:25:50 -0000 --ws8gospyWrtsiNyw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 1= 3:25:03 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: dec= lined. 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:0= 4:09:3a 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 !=3D 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=3D8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe04:93a%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3=20 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. =20 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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers --ws8gospyWrtsiNyw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/A6I4IubykFB6QiMRAnBEAKCj3Q89pTsVJwizYjWrn4m8DaTYfQCdHLh+ CDkIasfKriuWwlH1sdy5QxQ= =B100 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ws8gospyWrtsiNyw--