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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => Unix / Linux Discussion => Topic started by: Newby on January 01, 2007, 08:04:16 pm

Title: hostapd continually dying?
Post by: Newby on January 01, 2007, 08:04:16 pm

Over the last couple of weeks hostapd will randomly shut down and stop working. I don't know why. I have to ssh in and stop/start it with the rc script to get it working again. Occasionally when I start it the entire system will page fault.

Thoughts?

Title: Re: hostapd continually dying?
Post by: nslay on January 02, 2007, 02:52:37 pm

Quote from: Newby on January 01, 2007, 08:04:16 pm

Over the last couple of weeks hostapd will randomly shut down and stop working. I don't know why. I have to ssh in and stop/start it with the rc script to get it working again. Occasionally when I start it the entire system will page fault.

Thoughts?

What card are you using?  Some of the drivers are flaky.  For example, iwi is flaky...the author doesn't develop FreeBSD drivers anymore (he does OpenBSD drivers now).  Anyhow, some of these drivers can cause crashes.

Title: Re: hostapd continually dying?
Post by: Newby on January 02, 2007, 05:20:44 pm

Atheros driver. It's a Netgear card. WG311T or something.

Title: Re: hostapd continually dying?
Post by: nslay on January 02, 2007, 07:03:18 pm

Quote from: Newby on January 02, 2007, 05:20:44 pm

Atheros driver. It's a Netgear card. WG311T or something.

Wow, Atheros is pretty good ... thats a surprise.  Well, in that case, it could be a problem with hostapd, or it could be a problem with the WLAN infrastructure that FreeBSD has.