Pablo Le?n ??: > Hi Lin > (this is the same information, just the forum rejected to post from mail). > > > I did some test and will try to tell the results. > > I've tried in 2 places, my home , and at work. > > > At home: > I did the test Sunday 27. It goes like this. > > With automatic network management. Unpluged from cable network. > With "Automatic network interface Selection". The wifi net uses WEP. > My router is a Lynksys WRT54G. > > If I set the machine close to the router (about 1 meter) the connection is set > and stay steady (Good!). But it happens after some guessing wheter to use the > plugged net (rge driver) > or the wifi net (arn). It takes the machine about half a minute to decide > that it should > Hi Pablo,
This is not a driver issue, i think you use nwam in a wrong way, don't let it guess which net interface you want to use and which AP you want to connect, just right click the nwam and choose your favorite connection. > use the wireless net. > The strength reported varies between 93% and 100%. > > If the distance is larger (about 8 meters, with a thin wall in between) the > system > does the guessing for something between half a minute and a minute and the > connects the wireless net > (Good, ... almost). After about 4 minutes it looses connection to the wifi > net and tries again with the cable net. > Being unplugged it goes back to wifi after about a minute and connects again. > Please returm me the output of /var/adm/messages in this situation. Also please try the debug version attached and let me know the result, you can run: # pkgadd -d ./SUNWarn SUNWarn to install it. Br, Lin > This loop continued about 4 tiimes with the connection lasting about 4 minuts > and the disconnection about 1 minute. > On those ocasions I tried no to change any setting nor I changed the position > of the machine (nor the router). > After about the 4th flip-flop with the adapters the system could not connect > again, until I moved the machine > close to the router again. > At the moment of connection the system usually reported a strength of around > 65%, and while connected it went up to 95%. > > So strictly it did work, but is not very useful if the machine have to stay > at cable distance. > > With WinXP sitting in the same place the connection is steady. > > At work: > Did the tests on Monday 28 > I was unable to connect. The system reported a message like "Disconnected > because a different AP is used". > > I asked the net administrator and we seen that the network was configured on > "shared" mode instead of "open" > (the other options were WPA-Personal, WPA-Enterprise, and some other that I > don't remember now). > > So I guess this time the problem probably is that the protocol is not > supported > (at least I did't found were to set that mode on the guis of OSol). > > > regards > - Pablo > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SUNWarn Type: application/octet-stream Size: 992768 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20090930/1cd2a0ce/attachment-0001.obj>
