Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:49:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Lawrence Wickline" <larryw@katlar.com> To: <mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: PCMCIA/Wireless freezes and/or disconnects Message-ID: <51028.66.150.9.2.1036021794.squirrel@new.host.name>
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I am having some problems with my wireless connection disconnecting me from the network. first the gory details. I am using a dell Inspiron 8200 running KDE3 on 4.7-p1. My NIC is a Lynksys WPC11 version 2.5 and my access point is a Belkin gateway/firewall/hub. What happens is after the card is initialized everything works fine. It does take a few seconds for the card to be found and loaded but it does come on ok and work. In my pccard.conf file I call a script that executes the various wicontrol commands to set key and net.... Now after the card has been up for about 5 minutes I stop being able to make new connections. I have noticed that applications that were started immediately after the card comes up stay connected. like if i open a ssh connection it will continue to work and if I fire up Netscape and continually click on links it will still work. But if I actual stop and read a page for more than a few minutes Netscape stops being able to open up a new connection. I always can connect to the access point but I figure that is because the connection is always in use. But I cant connect beyond. If I rerun the configuration script I call in pccard.conf the problem goes away for about 5 mins before appearing again. last thing is the card works fine in windows on the same hardware. This has to be a BSD thing. Does anyone have any idea why this is going on or have a fix? This is pretty much the last hurdle I have to getting fully on BSD on my laptop. (minus getting DVD to play well:)) PS. It does also take several (10-15) seconds for the OS to detect the card has been removed. I did find this as a problem that had been reported to this mailing list previously. Is it possible these problems are related? Thanks, Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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