Wpi keep disconnecting
Alberto Rizzi
greenant at fastmail.fm
Fri Aug 8 15:24:17 UTC 2008
I have a Thinkpad T61 (UZ25FIT) dual boot with Xp and FreeBSD and has an
Intel 3945ABG on board.
#uname -a
FreeBSD yoda.endor 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 8 13:51:42
CEST 2008 root at yoda.endor:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YODA i386
I can load the wpi driver and configure the interface, then I can
connect to my wifi router (linksys wag54g 1v) with WPA and surf internet
but after a while the wpi disconnects. I think it is volume related and
not time related, maybe a counter overflow or something other.
If I mount a NFS directory and start copying files from the server to
the notebook, after a minute the wpi disconnects.
In /var/log/messages I can read
wpi0: link state changed to DOWN
and in wpa_cli I can read
<3>Michael MIC failure detected
<3>Michael MIC failure detected
<3>TKIP countermeasures started
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
after a minute I read in /var/log/messages
wpi0: scan timeout
and in wpa_cli
<2>WPA: TKIP countermeasures stopped
with netstat -ibh I see I moved 12MBytes
If I write "reassociate" in wpa_cli, after some seconds in var log
messages I read
wpi0: link state changed to UP
and in wpa_cli
<2>Trying to associate .....
<2>Associated with .....
<2>WPA: Key negotiation completed .....
<2>CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED .....
If I restart the copying process I can see
<3>Michael MIC failure detected
but wpi doesn't disconnect.
After a while wpi disconnects and I have the same messages in
/var/log/messages and wpa_cli
There isn't a fixed amount of bytes I can transfer between two
disconnection, sometime 10MB, sometime 100MB, but the maximum was 140MB
Please help me, I can give further info.
I have FreeBSD 7 on this PC since its release and I always had problems
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