No! I use FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE and never get a serious problems. FreeBSD is most suitable OS if you want to use it as wireless router. You'll never need to install orinoco driver like most people do it with Linux, because you already have wi0 in your GENERIC kernel.
AFAIK, wi0 driver always work fine with a new orinoco's firmware. Check your Orinoco and ISA/PCI Adapter . Try to replace with a new ones but before you do that please show me the error logs.. Regards, Eko Suwarsono ----------------------------- voip: 0111224209464 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronan Lucio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:49 PM Subject: Wireless > Hi All, > > I've having a problem with a FreeBSD wireless link > connected to a Lucent AP500. > > This link has Orinoco radio cards in both sides. > The problem is the wi0 interface in the FreeBSD-4.6-STABLE > box hangs suddenly for some minutes and starts working. > > Some days it happens many times during the day. > When the link is working fine, the wicontrol output > show the relation quality/signal/noise: [ 35 85 50 ], but, > when the link is hand, such output is: [ 0 0 50 ]. > If I reboot the machine at this moment, the FreeBSD box > starts up and everything works fine for sometime (about 1 ou 2 > hours) more and it after that... it cames hanging the > wi0 interface. > > Sometimes it stays some days without hang the interface, too. > > Ok, This is the problem. > Talking with my wireless equipament syplier, he told me > that the wi interface of FreeBSD systems is too old and > works to WaveLAN devices, yet. > > He told that I should either downgrade the radio card firmware > or to change the SO from FreeBSD to Linux with the driver > wavelan2cs or orinoco2cs. > > My question is: > Can it be true? > > Thank's > Ronan Lucio > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
