Subject: Re: network filesystem suggestions
To: Martijn van Buul <martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/18/2005 08:40:53
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> It occurred to me that Rick Kelly wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.general:
>
>> Have you thought about the possibility that there may be interference with
>> your wireless network from some other wireless network? ( or cordless phones,
>> and other consumer electronic junk)
>
> Probably - I live in a city. However, this doesn't seem to affect the same
> laptop, using the same network card, under Windows - and I really don't
> think a bad connection should warrant a kernel panic. There's one other
> reasonably strong network[1] and a few faint ones - but they're on different
> frequencies.
>
> Just when i thought removing '-march-pentium4' solved everything, it went
> kaboom again. Right after I ran 'rtsol atu0'. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe
> not.
>
> [1] An open one, no less. Very annoying; my network card keeps associating
> with it if I'm too slow with feeding it the ssid and nwkey of my own
> AP.
On that final point, I've found the following script quite
useful - I have it in /etc/rc.d and set autonet=YES
It tries for a wired connection, and if none is active will
check wireless interfaces for available ssids and use one
with an entry in rc.conf
Somewhat tangental to the original point :)
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David/absolute -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --
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