Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:15:02 +0300 (EEST) From: "Giorgos Kapetanakis" <zoulou@sians.org> To: "Matthias Apitz" <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-REL && iwi0: link state changed to DOWN / UP / DOWN / UP Message-ID: <63724.147.52.66.55.1180710902.squirrel@webmail.sians.org> In-Reply-To: <20070601141913.GA76123@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20070601141913.GA76123@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Fri, June 1, 2007 5:19 pm, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Recently I upgraded to 6.2-REL and have had massive problems with > our WPA-PSK AP in my office: > > May 31 15:05:55 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > May 31 15:06:03 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP > May 31 15:06:06 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > May 31 15:06:14 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP > May 31 15:06:18 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > May 31 15:06:26 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP > May 31 15:06:31 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > May 31 15:06:39 rebelion kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP > > the iwi0 interface was from time to time nearly unusable. It turned > out that sometimes near our building other small companies > appeared on air. I don't really understand why they can be seen > only sometimes with > > > $ ifconfig iwi0 scan > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS > mywifi xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:0b 11 54M 56:0 100 EP WPA > default xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:eb 11 54M 37:0 100 EP > SCHLxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxd6:cc 11 54M 31:0 100 EP > SCHLxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx21:84 11 54M 31:0 100 EP > SCHLxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx21:87 11 54M 31:0 100 EP > > and sometimes I only see my own one 'mywifi'. Any way, since I've > switched my AP to use channel 7 all is fine now. Just to let > you know in case others have the same trouble. > > matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz > Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH > Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ > http://guru.UnixArea.de/ > b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ > OCLC PICA GmbH, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christine Magin-Weeger, Norbert > Weinberger > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Oberhaching, HRB Muenchen: 113261 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >From /usr/src/UPDATING: 20060711: The iwi(4) was updated to use the firmware(9) framework. In order for it to work you need a port change from net/iwi-firmware to net/iwi-firmware-kmod. maybe this helps... -- Giorgos Kapetanakis
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