On 11/15/2007 23:35, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:08:13 -0600 >> From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele_at_computer.org> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm having some strangeness with respect to my atheros based card on >> releng_7. This may not sound like much... but together they concern me. >> I'm wondering if anyone has seen similar things. >> >> 1) I've seen two panics while trying to bring the interface up over >> the last few weeks. > > I have not seen this. > >> 2) I get disconnected every night from my wireless router at home. >> 99% of the time it happens after I've gone to bed. Once or twice... >> while I was sitting in front of it. It just disassociates? > > Try 'ifconfig ath0 -bgscan'. Something causes my card to lose > association periodically when the background scan is in progress. Are you saying try the above *after* I've been disconnected? Or is it an attempt to reproduce the disconnect? > >> 3) When I am at the office, my card will *never* obtain an ip address >> from our DHCP server upon first booting. I must *always* down the >> interface, kill dhclient, bring the interface up and start dhclient. > > Are you running wpa_supplicant? Are you using WPA, Yes, see below on my original post. > WEP or running open? > I see the card get "stuck" when scanning. It scans channels, but only > for WPA secured APs. When needing to associate with a WEP or open AP, it > never leaves WPA mode, so never associates. Hmm... yes, I 've noticed it doing this. Going around in circles through all the channels in WPA mode. odd. Any other work around other than bouncing the interface? > > I am also running BETA2 on a 5212 card in a T43 ThinkPad. -- Regards, Eric
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