From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 26 13:31:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25F437B401 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mortar.sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E99243F85 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by mortar.sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id 4C45930AEA; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 5D856469E; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:30:56 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16162.58624.332784.501662@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:30:56 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid Subject: wi in access point mode. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:31:11 -0000 I complained some time ago that my wi0 in my laptop would commonly loose sync. It appears to be the other way around. With other access points, it works flawlessly. With my home accesspoint ... provided by a FreeBSD-4.8-STABLE machine, the loss of sync is as follows: transferring from the ap to the laptop: loss of sync occaisionally ... seems exascerbated by traffic. transferring from the laptop to the ap: fairly stable. here's the interesting datapoint: When the ap is busy compiling and or ripping cds, the problem 10x worse than at any other time. The laptop card sees loss of association as often as every few seconds. now: I'm getting a small number of these: wi0: oversized mgmt packet received in hostap mode (wi_dat_len=58544, wi_status=0x8000) the AP probes as: wi0: mem 0xcecff000-0xcecfffff irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:05:5d:ee:e6:e7 wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.04 and is configured as: ifconfig_wi0="inet 216.138.225.97 netmask 255.255.255.248 ssid GILBERT mediaopt hostap channel 11" wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 216.138.225.97 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 216.138.225.103 inet6 fe80::205:5dff:feee:e6e7%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ether 00:05:5d:ee:e6:e7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps ) status: associated ssid GILBERT 1:GILBERT stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 11 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 NIC serial number: [ 99SA01000000 ] Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ] SSID for IBSS creation: [ GILBERT ] Current netname (SSID): [ GILBERT ] Desired netname (SSID): [ GILBERT ] Current BSSID: [ 00:05:5d:ee:e6:e7 ] Channel list: [ 2047 ] IBSS channel: [ 11 ] Current channel: [ 11 ] Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 81 27 ] Promiscuous mode: [ Off ] Process 802.11b Frame: [ Off ] Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 1 ] Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 6 ] MAC address: [ 00:05:5d:ee:e6:e7 ] TX rate (selection): [ 3 ] TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ] RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ] Create IBSS: [ Off ] Access point density: [ 1 ] Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ] Max sleep time: [ 100 ] WEP encryption: [ Off ] TX encryption key: [ 1 ] Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ] Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independant Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================