From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 23:53:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78C816A47C for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:53:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C865643E3E for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:52:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5D07C.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.208.124]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k03NljPd084033; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:47:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k03NpYw3003125; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:51:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.42]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:51:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20060104005134.k60dxcrrcw0c40kk@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:51:34 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Benjamin Close References: <17337.50303.811554.900031@canoe.dclg.ca> <43B9C7F1.5030303@cs.unisa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <43B9C7F1.5030303@cs.unisa.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.3) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Gilbert Subject: Re: dhclient ignoring link on wi0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:53:39 -0000 Benjamin Close wrote: > David Gilbert wrote: > >> I've got a laptop with the PC-CARD wi0 in it. I've currently got >> "ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"" in the rc.conf file. dhclient runs and >> everything is fine... until the association drops for a little bit. >> Then it looses the IP address and dhclient never relizes that it's >> associated again. Very annoying. >> >> I thought the whole point was that dhclient was suppose to notice >> these events? It does, but the driver doesn't send the corret events and also exhibits other misbehavior. > I have a slightly different but some what related issue. I can't get > an initial IP. > I've been trying to trace this down for a while. I believe it's a bug > in the wi code. The problem is, that the wi driver isn't ported to the current WLAN infrastructure. There's no documentation available for the WLAN infrastructure, so you have to read the source (the ath driver is the de-facto reference driver for the WLAN stuff), search the net and if nothing helps, ask sam@FreeBSD.org some well thought questions. If you have the time and energy to have a look at porting the wi driver to (at least parts of) the current WLAN framework, all wi users would appreciate some patches... Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation.