Re: Recent fragility with if_wi, 802.11 adhoc/wep, and Tiger

Alex Dupre wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
> 
>> I fairly regularly use 802.11 adhoc with WEP to communicate between my 
>> 6.x/7.x FreeBSD notebook using if_wi, and my Apple PowerBook running 
>> Mac OS X Tiger.  A few days ago, when I updated from a June to a July 
>> HEAD revision, this became quite "fragile".
>> I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, though.
> 
> 
> I have a (not so) similar problem with my atheros based D-Link DWL-G650 
> card with late CURRENTs. The problem is very strange: I can connect 
> stablily to my neighbor's 11g wireless network (even if the signal is 
> lower than my D-Link DI-624 AP) and I hardly can connect to my AP. When 
> it happens, the connection goes down after few seconds (no carrier) and 
> I cannot reconnect anymore. This used to work with older current (about 
> a month ago). I though the AP was broken, but I have a 11b device (voip 
> phone) that can connect without problems (yes, I tried to connect the 
> card in 11b mode, w/ & w/o wep, but it's the same).
> Anyone seeing this?

wi != ath
ap mode (really sta mode) != adhoc mode

You haven't provided any details of the setup that fails.  Have you 
tried setting up your ath card in 11b?

	Sam