From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 21:46:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D83106564A for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7428FC2A for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:46:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2961F1CD96; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:46:55 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:46:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080715134129.1b43b439@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20080715134129.1b43b439@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807152346.53723.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: David Gurvich Subject: Re: Wireless network with wpa X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:46:56 -0000 On Tuesday 15 July 2008 19:41:29 David Gurvich wrote: > Hello, > I would like to know what might be happening with a particular network > configuration. Wireless router using wpa, wired router provides dhcp > and connects to DSL modem. The wireless card involved is a mini-pci > intel 2100 using the if_ipw driver. I could not get this card working > at all with 6.3, though it seems to work with 7. > > From time to time, the ability to resolve the address of the wired > router disappears along with DNS resolution. If I 'wpa_cli reassociate' > it comes back. DHCP is done after associating, which is the only thing that comes to mind that could cause this "reappearance of DNS", since ping goes through ok. How are you doing DNS? Is there a local named running or is /etc/resolv.conf pointing directly to the nameserver? Where is that nameserver? On the wired network? Can you ping the nameserver or anything else on the wired network when this happens? Is there any change in /etc/resolv.conf after reassociation? -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.