Douglas Atique wrote: > I have just installed the ath 0.5 driver on my Toshiba notebook with > an internal Atheros 802.11g adapter. The driver attaches flawlessly > and the wificonfig utility is able to scan and connect to WPA > networks just perfectly. However, when I plumb the interface and get > myself an IP address from a DHCP server on that network, it works for > a while and then the router seems to stop responding. > > Doing a snoop -d ath0 in the beginning shows normal network activity, > but then starts displaying only the requests and no responses at all. > At first I thought it could be a problem with the wifi router or with > the wpa_supplicant daemon, but everything seems fine. wpa_supplicant > even reconnects automatically when I reboot the wifi router. > > At last, I found that only releasing the DHCP address and getting it > again solves the problem for another, say, 10 minutes. Now I am > suspecting that dhcpagent is unable to deal with possible WiFi signal > loss and temporary WiFi-level network tear down. Could that be the > case? >
Unlikely. dhcpagent typically will have nothing to do within that time period after obtaining a lease. What does "netstat -D" say when you're in that state? More likely you've got some hardware-level issue, or maybe wpa is getting confused. I'd start taking those out of the mix first and see if it works without the extra complications. Dave
