Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:30:54 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with an older Acer Aspire One Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=T-oijF5gRxcpiWq1Ak2GJ5BSOH7ZLzTmZSrTS47A3KQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADy1Ce5dN4PxD3okLpaiW=-mBMhbKbhJUTCSfuddTJ3yA59m7A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADy1Ce5dN4PxD3okLpaiW=-mBMhbKbhJUTCSfuddTJ3yA59m7A@mail.gmail.com>
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Well, what's it do when it loses wireless connection? is anything logged? adrian On 16 February 2013 18:01, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an older model of the model mentioned in the subject line, and > it loses its wireless connection every few days, requiring a reboot to > bring it back. This has happened since I had the machine, starting > with FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, though I've since upgraded a couple of > times, and am now at 9.1-RELEASE > > Is there any info out there on what I can do to keep the connection? I > don't use the machine heavily - it sits on my nightstand for light web > browsing before I sleep, mostly, so it's a bit annoying to have to > reboot before I can get to the web. > > Here's what info I'm able to glean from the machine: > > % dmesg | grep -i ath > ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0x95100000-0x9510ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 > ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0 > alc0: <Atheros AR8132 PCIe Fast Ethernet> mem 0x93000000-0x9303ffff > irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3 > atphy0: <Atheros F1 10/100/1000 PHY> PHY 0 on miibus0 > % ifconfig > ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 > ether 00:26:5e:2f:de:32 > nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g > status: associated > alc0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=c3198<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE> > ether 00:23:5a:ed:bd:56 > nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > media: Ethernet autoselect > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6> > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:26:5e:2f:de:32 > inet 192.168.151.103 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.151.255 > nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g > status: associated > ssid 5705NE197th channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:23:69:82:b2:bf > regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF > AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 > bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 > protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL > > > Thanks, > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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