From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 18 9:33:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B41C37B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id E713B81D05; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:33:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:33:07 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Guido van Rooij Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi problem with promiscuous mode Message-ID: <20011018113307.W65676@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011018171316.A18653@gvr.gvr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011018171316.A18653@gvr.gvr.org>; from guido@gvr.org on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:13:16PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Guido van Rooij [011018 10:13] wrote: > > I have a wi card that is used with a base station. We have a netname set > and are using the 'silver' encryption mode. Everything works great > but when I put the card in promiscuous mode, it seems that the card > gets into troubles. Some packets seem not to be sent anymore and some > seem not be received anymore. We compared tcpdumps on 2 laptops > and we haven't figured out which packets are haing these problems though. > > I also occasionally get: > wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc80/0; last status ffff > > I am not sure if that is related though. > > Can others verify this? Btw: it seems that the d-link card does not > go into this random problem mode. > > The base station is an airport. I have a wi type card (Addtron) in a PCI slot in one of my computers, I find that sometimes inserting a card into a BSD machine can cause _all_ the other BSD boxes on the wireless LAN to lock up solid. I'm interested in debugging it, but I don't have the time right now. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message