Recent fragility with if_wi, 802.11 adhoc/wep, and Tiger

[Alex Dupre]

Robert Watson wrote:

> I fairly regularly use 802.11 adhoc with WEP to communicate between my 
> 6.x/7.x FreeBSD notebook using if_wi, and my Apple PowerBook running Mac 
> OS X Tiger.  A few days ago, when I updated from a June to a July HEAD 
> revision, this became quite "fragile".
> I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, though.

I have a (not so) similar problem with my atheros based D-Link DWL-G650 
card with late CURRENTs. The problem is very strange: I can connect 
stablily to my neighbor's 11g wireless network (even if the signal is 
lower than my D-Link DI-624 AP) and I hardly can connect to my AP. When 
it happens, the connection goes down after few seconds (no carrier) and 
I cannot reconnect anymore. This used to work with older current (about 
a month ago). I though the AP was broken, but I have a 11b device (voip 
phone) that can connect without problems (yes, I tried to connect the 
card in 11b mode, w/ & w/o wep, but it's the same).
Anyone seeing this?

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Alex Dupre