Re: ral/wpa_supplicant drops after successful WPA negotiation?
"Peter de Rooij" <[email protected]>
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On 10/03/06, Sam Leffler <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter de Rooij wrote: > > On 02/03/06, Peter de Rooij <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <snip> > >> So I got a new card (partly because it's flaky under WinXP as well), > >> atheros based. > >> Added if_ath_load=YES to load.conf, and the card is detected. Beyond > >> that, alas still no connection. In fact, the connection is sometimes > >> associated, but never even gets to EAPOL negotiation; time-out before > >> then. The naked eye suggests it immediately drops from "UP" back to > >> "DOWN"; in fact I also saw several "ath0: 2 link states coalesced" > >> messages. > >> <snip> > >> [...] is this the bug with the unexpected timer trigger after all? > > > > In fact, the link kept going down even without wpa. Every few seconds > > or so. ping showed a 7% packet loss. And under XP it still worked > > reasonably well. > > > > Anyway, I still don't know what the problem was, but it disappeared > > when replacing the AP (the old one kept losing all settings from flash > > -- I decided it was at the end of its physical life). The new one > > connected in one go (maybe 3 minutes, including reboot to see if > > rc.conf and looader.conf changes worked). > > > > Let me know if there's interest to dig deeper -- the symptoms aren't > > all consistent with an AP failure. My curiosity may prod me to do so > > in the interest of improved code. > > Sorry I have no context here. > > Sam > Apologies -- I guess I was a bit too aggressive with the scissors... This refers to the thread "ral/wpa_supplicant drops after successful WPA negotiation?" (Feb 20/21/28, Mar 1/2); ref http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?43FA61A4.8030406. I'd get you a link to more recent stuff, but keep getting a proxy error on freebsd.org mailing list search. (Never mind.) Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"