misc/145777: [wpi] Intel 3945ABG driver breaks the connection after about 10 minutes of inactivity

[Marcin Nowak]

>Number:         145777
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       [wpi] Intel 3945ABG driver breaks the connection after about 10 minutes of inactivity
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 17 12:40:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Marcin Nowak
>Release:        8.0 Release
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD laptop 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sun Mar 28 11:38:43 CEST 2010     root at laptop:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
Intel 3945ABG driver breaks the connection after about 10 minutes of inactivity. When that happened, console shows:

wpi_newstate: RUN -> ASSOC flags 0x0

After that, ifconfig wlan0 shows:

wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:13:02:df:a4:58
        inet 192.168.0.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid em channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g)
        country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
        protmode CTS

Ofcourse before status was: associated
>How-To-Repeat:
Leave wi-fi connection unused for 10-15 minutes
>Fix:


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