From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 02:13:35 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 8BC2C16A70A for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:13:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjderooij@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627174B026 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:10:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjderooij@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so856878wra for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:10:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rdZ3CXAQwDR72N1LLgNwivGD17Cb62RSBgj9YVF0tUMrMj+F5vpDSKfEPfDqs/5ru/Zut0/KH0CoRp+pQDuw+gWT4yjiHZeE156Vug1BKzlkj2Cg+ZUmJyFDM2f9b2SYUitYj4wVeNKoP8vzGYxVjczWhc3fAMDM3jnKObYSUlk= Received: by 10.64.220.5 with SMTP id s5mr701334qbg; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.53.14 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:41:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <141fde50603101341v6eb45deu@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:41:58 +0000 From: "Peter de Rooij" Sender: peterjderooij@gmail.com To: "Sam Leffler" In-Reply-To: <4411B421.5000603@errno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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> 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 Reply-To: Peter de Rooij List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:13:35 -0000 On 10/03/06, Sam Leffler wrote: > 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=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. > >> > >> [...] 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