I have just installed the ath 0.5 driver on my Toshiba notebook with an internal Atheros 802.11g adapter. The driver attaches flawlessly and the wificonfig utility is able to scan and connect to WPA networks just perfectly. However, when I plumb the interface and get myself an IP address from a DHCP server on that network, it works for a while and then the router seems to stop responding.
Doing a snoop -d ath0 in the beginning shows normal network activity, but then starts displaying only the requests and no responses at all. At first I thought it could be a problem with the wifi router or with the wpa_supplicant daemon, but everything seems fine. wpa_supplicant even reconnects automatically when I reboot the wifi router. At last, I found that only releasing the DHCP address and getting it again solves the problem for another, say, 10 minutes. Now I am suspecting that dhcpagent is unable to deal with possible WiFi signal loss and temporary WiFi-level network tear down. Could that be the case? (By the way, I am using Solaris 10 6/06 (Update 2).) -- Douglas This message posted from opensolaris.org
