Hi there, I've been happily using the Atheros driver with OpenSolaris 200805 without any issues.
Recently at the location were I connect via wireless to the Internet someone started broadcasting an ibss connection from their laptop I would guess. This ibss connection always has a greater signal strength then the access point as shown below: access_point access point none 5 PSP_AULUS10160_L_NYTUVJQG ad-hoc none 5 PSP_AULUS10160_L_NYTUVJQG ad-hoc none 7 Usually the signal strength is 4 greater than the access point but today for whatever reason it's either at or just slightly above. The end result is that I cannot get a an IP address via DHCP with this configuration. I have setup a profile and set the essid into the profile. Even if I do a wificonfig connect essid=access_point it doesn't seem to help. wificonfig showstatus does show that the ath driver does connect to the access point but an ifconfig ath0 dhcp start sits and does nothing and eventually just times out. After the person leaves and the ibss connection is gone then things go back to normal. This is with the shipped OpenSolaris ath driver and the 0.7.2 driver. If I drop all the way back to the .3 driver which does not understand ibss then things are fine even with the ibss connection shown as being available. Is there any switch that I can set to have the current driver mimic this behaviour? thanks, alan This message posted from opensolaris.org
