Can't connect to wireless network with recent -CURRENT
Harti Brandt
brandt at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Thu Jul 3 00:32:27 PDT 2003
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
GgL>I've just upgraded my laptop to a recent -CURRENT, and since then I've
GgL>been having a lot of network problems. Here's a rough chronology:
GgL>
GgL>- Machine is a Dell Inspiron 7500, which I've been using with releases
GgL> 4 and 5 of FreeBSD without problems for the last 3 years. It's
GgL> usually connected to my house 802.11b network, which is run by an
GgL> old 486 in ad-hoc mode, no WEP. I use DHCP to set up the
GgL> connection.
GgL>
GgL>- Things worked fine up to my last kernel:
GgL>
GgL> Jun 26 14:03:43 kondoparinga kernel: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun May 11 13:25:03 CST 2003
GgL>
GgL>- On 28 June, I upgraded to the then -CURRENT. I had a lot of trouble
GgL> getting things working, including the following from the gateway
GgL> machine:
GgL>
GgL> Jun 29 09:35:15 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.109.197.199 from 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
GgL> Jun 29 09:35:15 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.109.197.199 to 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
GgL> Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPDECLINE on 192.109.197.199 from 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
GgL> Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.109.197.199: declined.
GgL> Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
GgL> Jun 29 09:35:16 air-gw dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.109.197.199 to 00:02:2d:04:09:3a via wi0
GgL>
GgL> Nothing was mentioned in the log files on the laptop.
GgL>
GgL>- I managed to connect, however, and things worked for a while, but
GgL> the machine kept freezing. I tried with a 100 Mb/s Ethernet card,
GgL> and it had problems too. With both network cards, it reported
GgL> various error messages which I didn't write down because I thought
GgL> they would be logged; unfortunately they weren't. The one from wi0
GgL> is still occurring:
GgL>
GgL> wi0: bad alloc 3b4 != ff, cur 0 nxt 0
GgL>
GgL>- I built a new kernel and world on 1 July. Since then I haven't had
GgL> any trouble with the system freezing up, but and was no longer able
GgL> to connect at all with the wireless card. After booting, I get:
GgL>
GgL> wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
GgL> inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe04:93a%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
GgL> inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
GgL> ether 00:02:2d:04:09:3a
GgL> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
GgL> status: associated
GgL> ssid Netname 1:Netname
GgL> stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
GgL> channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
GgL> wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
GgL>
GgL> However, no traffic comes through.
GgL>
GgL>It's pretty clear that it's this laptop: I have other machines on the
GgL>net which work without problems, and this machine also works if I boot
GgL>it with 4.8-STABLE.
GgL>
GgL>Any thoughts?
I think the same problem was reported by Rob Holmes two weeks ago and by
me (although with lesser detail) yesterday. I converted my kernel from
OLDBUS to NEWBUS and now one out of four or five tries the card works, but
this is really annoying. I have an Inspiron 8200 and an Avaya (that is a
Lucent) card. I have found no solution until now.
harti
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