Bug 131781 - [ndis] ndis keeps dropping the link
Summary: [ndis] ndis keeps dropping the link
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2009-02-17 15:00 UTC by Adam K Kirchhoff
Modified: 2017-12-31 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Adam K Kirchhoff 2009-02-17 15:00:07 UTC 
I decided to try the windows driver via ndis to see if I'd be able to connect to this AP at work ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131153 ) and I am actually able to connect.  However the network performance is pretty bad, and the link keeps going from DOWN to UP and back DOWN again.  

Here's the output of 'ifconfig ndis0':

[ adamk@scroll - ~ ]: ifconfig ndis0
ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether 00:13:ce:a8:10:ea
	inet 192.168.0.91 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
	status: associated
	ssid Mckella280Front channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) bssid 00:22:6b:9a:cc:af
	authmode WPA privacy OFF bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 roaming MANUAL
	bintval 0

And the appropriate dmesg output:

ndis0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection> mem 0xdfcff000-0xdfcfffff irq 17 at device 3.0 on pci3
ndis0: [ITHREAD]
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
ndis0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:a8:10:ea
ndis0: no matching rate for: 108
ndis0: link state changed to UP
ndis0: couldn't change DS config to 2412000kHz: 19
ndis0: link state changed to DOWN
ndis0: no matching rate for: 108
ndis0: link state changed to UP
ndis0: link state changed to DOWN
ndis0: no matching rate for: 108
ndis0: link state changed to UP
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-02-17 17:20:32 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net

Over to maintainer(s).
Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:31 UTC 
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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