wifi-connection getting dropped ...

[Kiffin Gish]

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Kiffin Rex Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Gary E. RAFE [mailto:drgerlists at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:50 PM
> To: kiffin.gish at planet.nl
> Cc: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: wifi-connection getting dropped ...
> 
> 
> Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:
> !Since upgrading to FreeBSD 6.2 and installing another 
> wireless adsl !router, I've been having problems with my 
> wifi-connection getting !dropped regularly, for example when 
> idle for a given amount of time. ! !Here are my settings: ! 
> !# ifconfig wi0
> !wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> !        inet 192.168.1.102 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> !        ether 00:02:2d:a5:1b:07
> !        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
> !        status: associated
> !        ssid SpeedTouchABF160 channel 1 bssid 00:14:7f:8a:74:e3
> !        stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
> !        authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey 1 wepkey 
> 1:40-bit txpowmax
> !100
> !        bmiss 7 bintval 100
> !
> !Any ideas what is going wrong and how it can be fixed?
> 
> What is the *specific* sympton you see here ?

When the connection breaks, ifconfig gives same results as above except that
the inet line is completely missing!

> 
> We reported back in February the problem of
> the second line of your "ifconfig wi0" command output
> (i.e., "inet 192.168.1.102 netmask 0xfffff...")
> simply disappearing after some random amount of idle time.
> 
> The wi0 device, however, stays "associated" with the AP,
> but the netork doesn't work anymore.
> 
> This also with FBSD 6.2-R.
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> Dr Gary E RAFE: drgerlists at gmail dot com