Re: Connection problems with wme enabled

The default configuration of iwi did not change; only ath.  I don't see 
any information to show the cause of your "connection problems" so 
there's no way to guess what's going on.

    Sam

Fabian Keil wrote:
> Sam Leffler <sam_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> This could be because wme is now enabled by default; if it's on try 
>> turning it off.
>>     
>
> Maybe this would be worth mentioning in /usr/src/UPDATING.
>
> Since rebuilding world last weekend, I had connection
> problems with iwi0. Under load it would be associated
> for less than 10 seconds after which I had to run
> "ifconfig wlan0 down up" to get a connection again.
>
> Running the above ifconfig line in a delayed loop
> would more or less work for about 30 minutes after
> which if_iwi.ko had to be reloaded to get it working
> again.
>
> Disabling wme for wlan0 seems to have solved the problem.
>
> My rc.conf used to be:
>
> vaps_iwi0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.0.49 ssid ... wepkey 1:... deftxkey 1 wepmode on chanlist 7 bmiss 100 -bgscan country de regdomain indoor"
>
> (Not touching the bmiss and bgscan settings didn't
> seem to affect the problem.)
>
> I'm using:
>
> fk_at_TP51 ~ $pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 iwi0
> iwi0_at_pci0:2:2:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x27128086 chip=0x42208086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'MPCI3B  driverIntel PRO/Wireless 2200BG'
>     class      = network
>
> With the access point Netgear WGT 624 v3.
>
> Fabian
>