How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support?
Da Rock
rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au
Sat Oct 4 06:36:19 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 23:07 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah I believe I checked stable at the time, but I'm not subscribed to
hackers so I wouldn't know about there. I'll check stable again now that
you mention it.
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