Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:41:58 +0000 From: "Peter de Rooij" <peter@derooij.org> To: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ral/wpa_supplicant drops after successful WPA negotiation? Message-ID: <141fde50603101341v6eb45deu@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4411B421.5000603@errno.com> 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> <4411B421.5000603@errno.com>
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On 10/03/06, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> wrote: > Peter de Rooij wrote: > > On 02/03/06, Peter de Rooij <peter@derooij.org> wrote: > >> <snip> > >> So I got a new card (partly because it's flaky under WinXP as well), > >> atheros based. > >> Added if_ath_load=3DYES to load.conf, and the card is detected. Beyon= d > >> 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. > >> <snip> > >> [...] 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 > Apologies -- I guess I was a bit too aggressive with the scissors... This refers to the thread "ral/wpa_supplicant drops after successful WPA negotiation?" (Feb 20/21/28, Mar 1/2); ref http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?43FA61A4.8030406. I'd get you a link to more recent stuff, but keep getting a proxy error on freebsd.org mailing list search. (Never mind.) Cheers, Peter
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