wireless signal strength

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 11:29:51 PST 2009


On 1/30/09, Lars Lonne <lonnelars at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I have recently install FreeBSD-7.1 on my laptop. The laptop used to
> have windows and linux, but I have replaced linux with FreeBSD because I
> thought it looked very promising. However, I have one problem: the wireless
> signal strength seems to be significantly weaker when I am running FreeBSD.
> On windows I can connect and get online, but when I'm running FreeBSD it
> keeps connecting and disconnecting, or not even seeing the network at all.
> Also in linux it was never a problem. Is there something that can be done
> with this? In linux I was using wireless-tools (iwconfig) and dhclient,
> which worked fine. Are there perhaps other software that will work better
> than using ifconfig?
>

what driver?

> /lars
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Paul


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