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Old 21st January 2009
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Originally Posted by fbsduser View Post
It can be a bit of a blind guess. But if you can, try to connect from a wifi-enabled windoze box. This is because this constant reconections can be caused by special instructions embedded in some router's firmware that makes the router drop conections if it detects the computer uses any non-Windoze operating system.
Thanks for the reply. Connecting to the router works for Win XP, Win Vista and Mac OS X. If the Mac OS X works, why FreeBSD wouldn't?

I am going to test connecting without WPA, just to see if the problem could come from misconfigured encryption.
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