Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:13:42 -0500 From: David Booth <davidb@boothscientific.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wpi keep disconnecting Message-ID: <200809180713.42287.davidb@boothscientific.com> In-Reply-To: <48D23D9B.6010803@paradise.net.nz> References: <489C625F.3020605@fastmail.fm> <489C7263.1040209@fastmail.fm> <48D23D9B.6010803@paradise.net.nz>
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On Thursday 18 September 2008, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Alberto Rizzi wrote: > > Sam Leffler ha scritto: > >> Check for a firmware update for your router. > >> > >> Sam > > > > It already has the latest firmware (maybe 4 years old). > > Unfortunately I don't have other routers to try with. > > I would seriously doubt this is a router problem - I see the same > thing with an Asus laptop using wpi driver + WPA encryption. In my > case disabling the encryption was a workaround (a very poor one I > know). This appears to be a Freebsd issue AFAIK, as for instance > under Ubuntu I can have WPA enabled with such disconnection > occurring. > > regards > > Mark I have a similar experience with wpi in a dell laptop running 7 stable i386. Without encryption, the connection will stay up without fail. If I enable WPA, it disconnects at seeming random intervals that are shortened by doing large file transfers. Sometimes it will go for a full day without disconnecting; however, if I do a file ftp of a few hundred megs, it may disconnect after a just a few minutes. I do not think that it is a hardware problem in either the card or the router as when I boot the laptop into windows and use the same router and same WPA settings, the connection remains rock solid even with successive large file transfers.
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