Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:14:06 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetGear MA401 problems on -CURRENT... Message-ID: <20020806001406.GB89343@ninja1.internal> In-Reply-To: <20020802122323.GA2116@ninja1.internal> References: <20020801224206.GC85567@ninja1.internal> <20020801.224230.74199274.imp@bsdimp.com> <20020802122323.GA2116@ninja1.internal>
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> > : *) The entire IP suite is horked (ICMP, UDP, TCP) and I'm wondering if > > : this has something to do with any of the recent hostap/wi changes. > > > > You might try the latests fixes to hostap wrt promisc modes. They > > help a lot if you are using hostap. If you aren't using hostap, > > then I don't know what's going on. > > Sorry for the vague 20K mi up PR, I really am stumped and am not sure > where to begin looking. I'm not using hostap, both of these cards are > in infrastructure mode. What really confuses me and makes me think > this isn't a wi problem, is that when I send off say an ICMP packet, > on the laptop I can see the reply in tcpdump even though ping never > see's the packet. To me that says that wi got the packet packet and > therefore the problem isn't in the wi driver. > > Just to make things a little stranger, if you ping the laptop's IP > address from the laptop, it works 100% of the time if you haven't been > pinging a remote addr. If you have, then expect to get about a 90% > packet loss. :-/ > > Any thoughts on who or where I can poke to get additional info? I'll > run truss/ktrace on ping in the AM, but am wondering if there are any > other diags or ways of trying to tease apart what's going on? -sc Just as an FYI, I am currently supping my laptop with an xl net card so the problem is definately wireless related. Once I get a fresh build on there I'll see if the problem still persists or if this is fixed/broken with the hostap changes. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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