Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:28:01 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Richard Kolkovich" <sarumont@sigil.org> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath0 link up/down frequent Message-ID: <20090903222801.528461CC09@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:21:57 CDT." <20090903222156.GA6786@magus.portal.sigil.org>
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> From: "Richard Kolkovich" <sarumont@sigil.org> > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:21:57 -0500 > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:29:13AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Anything I should look into? > > > > My standard suggestion, which works for me, is to issue an 'ifconfig > > ath0 -bgscan'. Background scanning is not supposed to effect the > > association, but it seems to, at least on my system. > > > > My experience has been much the same. It typically only happens in > areas with a lot of APs, though (i.e. my apartment building). My case is similar. I will see it on occasion at home where I typically see only two or three APs, but is only a real problem when I am at a networking conference and there are a whole raft of APs out there. In those cases the wireless is rendered unusable as I lose association every 5 minutes. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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