Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:07:45 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support? Message-ID: <20081004060745.GA48067@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <1223099600.27632.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <48E67C86.5030206@rawbw.com> <1223099600.27632.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 03:53:20PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:11 -0700, Yuri wrote: > > I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within > > 10 feet). > > Gentoo Linux (with old AirLink101) connects to a particular encrypted > > WEP network without any problems all the time. > > FreeBSD (with ral0 device and native driver) connection is very > > unstable, keeps disappearing, though network card shows signal level as > > -90:-95. > > dhclient fails to set up the card, often dhclient succeeds but all name > > lookups fails. When internet connection is established all TCP > > connections get dropped after 10-20 minutes or less. > > > > I feel like I hit some bug in FreeBSD WiFi networking support. > > > > Anyone has similar experience? > > Yuri > > Yeah I had similar troubles on a laptop with an intel wifi (6.1 + 6.2). > I posted something about a week or two back, but I didn't get any > response here. Not sure where to go from here though, as I'm having > similar troubles with the ral driver too (desktop- 6.3). Have you tried the freebsd-stable and freebsd-hackers lists? Supplicant has been discussed there in the recent and late past. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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