Bug 22588

Summary: scp hangs when using Lucent 802.11b card
Product: Base System Reporter: larson <larson>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description larson 2000-11-03 21:30:01 UTC 
When sending large file (or group of files) from the wireless system
to another (tested with a 4.1-STABLE and a Solaris ssh 1.2.27 system),
a bunch of data appears to queue up (about 100 KB or so), and the
transfer hangs.
Eventually, the connection drops and aborts.

Fix: 

Unknown, but there do seem to be out of memory problems in dealing
with the wireless card at times.
Related?  I dunno.
How-To-Repeat: This is a toughie.  Sometimes it works.  When it fails, repeating
the try will not get it to work.

scp -rp directory-of-100k-files remote-host.org:directory-of-100k-files
failed for me, but after doing the transfer with the wired ethernet,
then rebooting with the wireless card, now wireless works.
(Wireless has failed on this many times in the past, so this is not
a one time event.)
Comment 1 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-17 18:37:45 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Is this still a problem with more recent FreeBSD versions?  The wi 
driver has gone through a number of updates since 4.0-RELEASE.
Comment 2 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-18 03:34:33 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Submitter has different hardware now, problem doesn't seem to 
occur on 4.3-RELEASE.