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 :)

-- 
 		David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --
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