Re: Weird wifi behavior

From: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:29:22 +0300
2012/6/1 Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Please file a bug. :)
>

Here it goes:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168530


> WEP shouldn't be broken in 9.x, that was before all of my TX
> aggregation changes for 802.11n support.
>
Don't know if it is... since my other stuff working in same network.

> WEP worked fine for me when I was using it a couple weeks ago. Would
> you please provide further information in the bug, such as what the
> key length is, which key slots are configured, your
> ifconfig/wpa_supplicant.conf entry, etc.

Yes, I will prepare this info now.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On 1 June 2012 06:13, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all.
>> First of all, I'm not on current, but on stable:
>>
>> FreeBSD pcbsd-6648 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #8: Fri May 18
>> 16:12:29 UTC 2012
>> root_at_build9x64.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/builds/i386/pcbsd-build90/fbsd-source/9.0/sys/GENERIC
>>  i386
>>
>> I have lenovo s10-2 (which is have some unsupported broadcom wifi).
>> I did replace wifi with
>> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0x56100000-0x5610ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
>> ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0
>>
>>
>> And weirdness begin.
>> At my home I have wifi router in WEP mode. All devices/laptops are
>> working just fine. But s10-2 is somehow get broken packets;
>> fetch - got broken downloads (incorrect MD5, and sometimes say to me
>> that length of file is invalid);
>> wget - stops, saying something about MAC error.
>> ssh - works fine while I simply use console (cd, ls) - can lasts
>> hours.but! If I run mc, and starts something like copy/delete files
>> (which heavily updates screen) - ssh drops connections with message
>> packet error.
>> browsing - pretty working (but not file downloads of course).
>>
>> At my workplace we using WPA with password. At work I can download
>> packages,files,etc - all is OK with fine checksums.
>> I happen to note this while testing PC-BSD 9.0, currently I'm on
>> latest PC-BSD beta.
>>
>> Any thoughts/advices on how to test it/fix it?
>> I'd gladly use broadcom (bcm94312MCG) if it works. BTW, maybe someone
>> could mentor me on developing/porting driver? :)
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Alexander Yerenkow
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-- 
Regards,
Alexander Yerenkow
Received on Fri Jun 01 2012 - 12:29:23 UTC

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