Solved PCMCIA/Wireless freezes and/or disconnects

The problem ended up being an access point that died at the same time I
did the install of BSD. Replaced the access point with a new on and
everything works fine.


<quote who="Lawrence Wickline">
> I am having some problems with my wireless connection disconnecting me
> from the
> network. first the gory details.
> I am using a dell Inspiron  8200 running KDE3 on 4.7-p1. My NIC is a
> Lynksys WPC11
> version 2.5 and my access point is a Belkin gateway/firewall/hub.
>
> What happens is after the card is initialized everything works fine. It
> does take a
> few seconds for the card to be found and loaded but it does come on ok
> and work. In
> my pccard.conf file I call a script that executes the various wicontrol
> commands to
> set key and net....
>
> Now after the card has been up for about 5 minutes I stop being able to
> make new
> connections. I have noticed that applications that were started
> immediately after
> the card comes up stay connected. like if i open a ssh connection it
> will continue
> to work and if I fire up Netscape and continually click on links it will
> still work.
> But if I actual stop and read a page for more than a few minutes
> Netscape stops
> being able to open up a new connection.
>
> I always can connect to the access point but I figure that is because
> the connection
> is always in use. But I cant connect beyond.
>
> If I rerun the configuration script I call in pccard.conf the problem
> goes away for
> about 5 mins before appearing again.
>
> last thing is the card works fine in windows on the same hardware. This
> has to be a
> BSD thing.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this is going on or have a fix? This is
> pretty much
> the last hurdle I have to getting fully on BSD on my laptop. (minus
> getting DVD to
> play well:))
>
> PS. It does also take several (10-15) seconds for the OS to detect the
> card has been
> removed. I did find this as a problem that had been reported to this
> mailing list
> previously. Is it possible these problems are related?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Larry




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