I have the same symptoms as described below. Worse, when I move from wired to Wifi (on the same network, eg by unplugging the cable from the ADSL router to my laptop), nwam fails to configure the interface until I reboot. This used to work.
I have tried to do svcadm restart physical:nwam, I have also tried to disable nwam and run wificonfig autoconf etc, and then get a seeming connected status but do not get an IP, even manually, unless I reboot. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Karl Dalen <k_dal2 at hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm using the ath-0.7.3 driver together with wificonfig on my laptop and > when I disconnect the wlan using: wificonfig -i ath0 disconnect (or > suspend) > and move to another location and try to connect to another access point it > fails. > If I do: > # wificonfig -i ath0 connect newpoint > It looks like I'm connected based on: wificonfig -i ath0 showstatus > > linkstatus: connected > active profile: none > essid: newpoint > bssid: 00:18:b0:7b:c2:99 > encryption: none > signal strength: medium(10) > > but 'ifconfig ath0' shows: > ath0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu > 1500 index 2 > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.0.255.255 > > which means I haven't got a new IP at the new access point > It seems to indicate that my IP is set to 0.0.0.0 > > Now if I try: > # ifconfig ath0 dhcp > ifconfig: ath0: wait timed out, operations still pending > > and I fail to get a new IP. It doesn't matter how many times I do > wificonfig > disconnect and connect I never manage to get the wlan interface up unless > I reboot after which it comes up automatically without the need for any > manual > wificonfig and it works reliably. > > How can I clean up the state of ifconfig and wificonfig such that it can > reconnect and acquire new IP after moving to another access point ? > I'm running Indiana build 96 Anyone experienced similar problems ? > > It shows the same behavior when I go back home to my local > access point so it has nothing to with the access points themselves > or any security setting as everything works on each location > after a reboot. > > Any help would be appreciated > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20080927/389edfda/attachment.html>
