Blackberry Bold on FreeBSD ath AP not working

Chris Buechler freebsd at chrisbuechler.com
Sun Jan 25 15:54:52 PST 2009


Chris Buechler wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried connecting a Blackberry Bold to a FreeBSD access 
> point using an Atheros card?  The card is an Atheros 5212, using 
> FreeBSD 7.0. Every other wireless device that has been tried on this 
> network works fine, but this Blackberry connects, gets a DHCP lease, 
> and then sends ARP requests that get no reply.

Update:  this is caused by powersave being broken. Fix posted by Bill 
Paul here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/110707
fixes this problem.

Chris



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