Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:53:21 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern/132722: [ath] Wifi ath0 associates fine with AP, but DHCP or IP does not work Message-ID: <20090323185321.GA2352@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <49C7D89A.6070502@incunabulum.net> References: <20090317103650.GA6156@rebelion.Sisis.de> <49BF7DE4.4010804@incunabulum.net> <20090317104548.GB6182@rebelion.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903171148250.51892@thor.farley.org> <49BFF258.4020207@freebsd.org> <20090323182310.GA1825@rebelion.Sisis.de> <49C7D89A.6070502@incunabulum.net>
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El día Monday, March 23, 2009 a las 06:44:42PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > >I went today evening with my EeePC and CURRENT on USB key > >to that Greek restaurant; DHCP does not get IP in CURRENT either; > >this is somehow good news, isn't it :-) > > > > This may be orthogonal, but: > A lab colleague and I have been seeing a sporadic problem where the > ath0 exhibits the symptoms of being disassociated from its AP. We are > running RELENG_7 on the EeePC 701 since the open source HAL merge. > In the behaviour we're seeing, we don't see any problem with the > initial dhclient run, the ath0 just seems to get disassociated within > 5-10 minutes of associating. > > If we leave 'ping <ap-ip-address>' running in the background, we don't > see this problem. ... This must be a complete different problem, because in my case the AP stays (at least what ifconfig shows) always associated, but don't get offered IP addr; matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/
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