Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:48:18 +0200 From: "Damien Bergamini" <damien.bergamini@free.fr> To: "Adam McDougall" <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iwi not roaming between access points Message-ID: <015601c5aadb$b12f8b50$0300a8c0@COMETE> References: <20050827024515.GI35005@egr.msu.edu>
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Thanks for your report. That doesn't surprise me too much since there is nothing particular implemented in iwi for roaming support. I guess the firmware needs some help from the host here too. I'll investigate further into this once I got IBSS mode working ;) Damien From: "Adam McDougall" <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 4:45 AM Subject: iwi not roaming between access points | I recently obtained a new Dell Latitude D810 laptop with | Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG. It works reasonably well, | but at work we have approx. 90 access points on the same | ssid, and I cannot roam between them. If I compile | /usr/src/tools/tools/ath/80211debug to work with iwi0 | rather than ath0 and run ./80211debug +dumppkts, I see | verification of my theory that it is only talking with | the access point it originally associated with. I can | walk down the hallway until the signal vanishes past a | useful level (as indicated by the number after rssi until | no response), and by this I deduce that iwi0 is only talking | with the original access point. At that point, if iwi0 | shows it is still associated (but not working), | I can ifconfig iwi0 ssid "thessid" and iwi0 will rescan for | access points and start working. However, if iwi0 shows | no association, setting ssid does not work but doing an | ifconfig down/up revives it. | | By the time I walk out of range of the original access point, | I have walked past at least 2 other access points and closer | to a third. If I take the stairs to another floor, it is | a guaranteed dead association. When I login to the wireless | equipment, I verify that my laptop is only associated with | the originally associated access point. | | The same card works fine in windows, but thats just for | reference ;) | | I am running 7.0-current last built on Aug 24, with | iwi-firmware-2.3_1. | | Other wireless nics have worked fine for me in regards | to roaming, although I do have an ipw0 available for | testing that I have not tried roaming with if it would | be helpful. I am very appreciative for the iwi driver | since it has been more stable than other 802.11g drivers | I have used in FreeBSD. | | Is there anything else I can try, or more details I can | provide to solve this issue? Thanks. | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" |
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