Weird disconnect problems on 8.0-RELEASE

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 16:23:08 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:35:21 +0000
> Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:31:21 +0000
>> > Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> For more help you may need to provide 80211 packets.
>> >
>> > Hi Paul. I recall having a discussion with you about this earlier in
>> > the year. Do I require special hardware in order to be able to
>> > capture such packets, or can I get them directly from Wireshark?
>>
>> You will need hardware which have support via drivers like ath(4) for
>> monitor mode operation.
>>
>> But I recall that you did not have such problems with older NDISulator
>> from 5.X or 6.X days?
>
> I do not recall having this problem in the 7.x days.

You could downgrade to 7.2 and make sure that it is working properly.
>From there on you could than bisect through commits related to ndis
and if_ndis files, the best interface for that is using freebsd git
mirror from gitorious:  git://gitorious.org/freebsd/freebsd.git


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