Samba and ath0

[Kevin Downey]

FreeBSD zifnab 6.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 #3: Sat Jul 23 00:11:23 PDT
2005     root at zifnab:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SEE_NO_EVIL  i386

ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe4010000-0xe401ffff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci0
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:3d:ae:ad:b8
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6

while trying to transfer a 1gb file over samba from a freebsd machine
to a windows xp machine ath0 loses its "associated" state. At all
other times the connection is fine and the freebsd machine associates
with the ap just dandy. I am using wpa_supplicant, in this case the ap
is wide open. It is some kind of linksys ap. The xp machine is wired.

This is kind of annoying. playing mp3's off of the samba share works
fine. Does anyone have and suggestions on how to resolve this?

ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	inet6 fe80::20f:3dff:feae:adb8%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	inet 192.168.1.19 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
	ether 00:0f:3d:ae:ad:b8
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
	status: associated
	ssid linksys channel 6 bssid 00:13:10:14:a9:0d
	authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 52 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
	bintval 100

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