How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 03:53:20PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:11 -0700, Yuri wrote:
> > I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within 
> > 10 feet).
> > Gentoo Linux (with old AirLink101) connects to a particular encrypted 
> > WEP network without any problems all the time.
> > FreeBSD (with ral0 device and native driver) connection is very 
> > unstable, keeps disappearing, though network card shows signal level as 
> > -90:-95.
> > dhclient fails to set up the card, often dhclient succeeds but all name 
> > lookups fails. When internet connection is established all TCP 
> > connections get dropped after 10-20 minutes or less.
> > 
> > I feel like I hit some bug in FreeBSD WiFi networking support.
> > 
> > Anyone has similar experience?
> > Yuri
> 
> Yeah I had similar troubles on a laptop with an intel wifi (6.1 + 6.2).
> I posted something about a week or two back, but I didn't get any
> response here. Not sure where to go from here though, as I'm having
> similar troubles with the ral driver too (desktop- 6.3).

Have you tried the freebsd-stable and freebsd-hackers lists?  Supplicant
has been discussed there in the recent and late past.

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