Recent fragility with if_wi, 802.11 adhoc/wep, and Tiger
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Wed Jul 20 04:36:08 GMT 2005
Alex Dupre wrote:
> 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?
wi != ath
ap mode (really sta mode) != adhoc mode
You haven't provided any details of the setup that fails. Have you
tried setting up your ath card in 11b?
Sam
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