Re: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
OH wow, I only JUST saw this, sorry! On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 03:40, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > On 2020-06-19 12:14, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > [snip] Also, did you plug in something USB-3 related recently? :-) > > > > USB-3 / USB-C's signaling frequency interferes with 2.4GHz :-) > > No. The only USB-C

Re: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-21 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 2020-06-19 12:14, Adrian Chadd wrote: > [snip] Also, did you plug in something USB-3 related recently? :-) > > USB-3 / USB-C's signaling frequency interferes with 2.4GHz :-) No. The only USB-C I have is my phone which I have never plugged into the computer. Here's another data point. It see

Re: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-20 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 2020-06-19 12:13, Adrian Chadd wrote: > If I can't keep it running can someone suggest a system test I can do to > decide that hostapd needs to be restarted? > > So, you shouldn't need to restart hostapd after a stuck beacon. It > should recover. That was my understanding. > One t

Re: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
[snip] Also, did you plug in something USB-3 related recently? :-) USB-3 / USB-C's signaling frequency interferes with 2.4GHz :-) -adrian > ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe,

Re: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 16:37, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > I have set up my FreeBSD box as a gateway. It used to work fine but > suddenly my hotspot keeps failing. It drops a few times a day. > Restarting hostapd gets it back up again but I really want to keep it > up. I am running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEAS

WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-18 Thread D'Arcy Cain
I have set up my FreeBSD box as a gateway. It used to work fine but suddenly my hotspot keeps failing. It drops a few times a day. Restarting hostapd gets it back up again but I really want to keep it up. I am running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64. My WiFi card is: ath0@pci0:1:0:0: