Wireless must bee kept alive by simultaneous pings

Joe Talbott josepht at cstone.net
Sat May 29 06:02:03 PDT 2010


On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:12:23AM +1000, elekktretterr at exemail.com.au wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've always had this problem in DF/FBSD(only these 2 OS's) that wireless
> keeps dying (not disconnecting, just slowing down to complete halt
> frequently) on this box. Ever since the new wireless stack was put in, it
> happens even more so frequently.
> 
> Because this problem has been so unbearable I decided to write a script
> that creates 10x simultaneous pings to my local gateway, which improves
> the situation quite a bit. However its not a solution.
> 
> I would like to get a real solution. What info and dumps do I need to
> provide?

What driver/chipset are you using?  SMP or UP kernel?  What AP are you
connecting to?

Thanks,
Joe





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