Dave Miner ???: > Douglas Atique wrote: > >> 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? >> > > Unlikely. dhcpagent typically will have nothing to do within that time > period after obtaining a lease. What does "netstat -D" say when you're > in that state? > > More likely you've got some hardware-level issue, or maybe wpa is > getting confused. I'd start taking those out of the mix first and see > if it works without the extra complications.
Hi Gouglas, You can run wpa_supplicant as a front-end program with debug information by:| # wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -F -dd |Then, yon can check the status of wpa, if you find something abnormal, you can post the output information here, then I can help to figure out. -- Quaker > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
