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Wifi ceases after a good installation 6.0
This is the third time now that I have installed 6.0 onto my Fujitsu laptop. I am doing a wifi installation, and all goes very well for the first few days. Then it will no longer connect to my home router - says sleeping after about 5 seconds. It worked absolutely perfectly for a couple of days. My entire system and software installed without a problem - even after reboots and shutdowns.
Now, no wireless connection. I can remove the hard drive, install a linux drive, and networking works as usual. Once the OpenBSD wifi problem occurs, even using the installation CD will not acquire my home network. Is it possible to add a line to dhclient.conf to increase the timeout? The man page says the default is set to 30 seconds, but is this the true? I seem to get the sleeping message in much less than 10 seconds. I was hoping to use OpenBSD at long last on my laptop, but this problem has reappeared. Any help appreciated, or I'm back to linux Slackware. Thanks. |
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Thanks for your assistance. Attached is the complete dmesg output.
Wifi router was on, but OpenBSD timed out. |
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ath0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 19 ath0: AR5424 10.3 phy 6.1 rf 10.2 eeprom 5.3, FCC3A, address <censored> How yours router is configured? Does it have WEP, WPA or WPA2? Please provide Code:
ifconfig ath0 cat /etc/hostname.ath0 Code:
sh /etc/netstart ath0
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This NIC is an AR5424. There is a long thread on tech@ that began in 2010 and ended in 2013. To my understanding, only certain versions of this card work, and only if a user-developed patch (which breaks other things) is applied.
The discussion is very long, and the earliest posts in the thread began here: http://marc.info/?t=126437919200002&r=3&w=2 |
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My Acer Aspire One A150 came with an AR5424. I'm surprised you got it to run at all. I tried NetBSD 7.0.x and FreeBSD10.x. The connection was erratic on NBSD and FBSD so I ran Debian for a long time.
The release notes for FreeBSD 11.0 indicated power savings support for the AR5424 and I tried FreeBSD 11.0. It runs well in FreeBSD 11.0. |
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I have investigating dhclient and the default settings that OpenBSD has set. It is quite different from bog standard deafaults used by Linux. So, I edited the dhclient.conf to change the following:
timeout from 30 sec to 60 sec retry from 1 sec to 60 sec reboot from 1 sec to 10 sec initial-interval from 10 sec to 2 sec So far I have been getting consistent wifi connections. I wonder why OpenBSD strayed so far from the recommended defaults. |
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This site is independent from the OpenBSD project. While there are project developers who read & respond to messages from time to time, no one here is privy to the discussion occurring within the project proper. You can easily search through the CVS repository & find the developers who have modified much of the wireless interface code, & contact them directly. Another possible avenue would be post to misc@; there, you may or may not get an answer. Providing as much information as possible (including dmesg(8) output...) might increase your chances of getting a useful response. |
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