Re: wifi loses its mind

[Will Senn <will.senn%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 8/11/24 09:28, Will Senn wrote:

>       
>       I have an athn0 device
>         set up on my inspiron n4110 with netbsd10 stable. It's connected
>         to my wifi access point. If I'm working on the device console or
>         in a terminal, it's able to access the internet and local
>         network, no issues. However, if I remote into it over ssh and
>         leave the connection open, it will eventually lose it's mind,
>         meaning that the ssh session stops responding, I can't ping it
>         from the remote host on another terminal, and if I log into the
>         device locally, it can't ping my remote host... until I do
>         ifconfig, after that ping starts working again.
>         
>         here's ifconfig:
>       athn0:
>           flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
>           1500 
>                ssid Phoenix nwkey
>         65536:"",0x299ab4bb1d4a60ce4a701469277efb16,"","" 
>                powersave off 
>                bssid 54:a0:50:d4:84:c0 chan 11 
>                address: cc:af:78:54:67:d3 
>                media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM24 mode 11g) 
>                status: active 
>                inet6 fe80::ceaf:78ff:fe54:67d3%athn0/64 flags 0 scopeid
>         0x1 
>                inet 192.168.1.14/24 broadcast 192.168.1.255 flags 0
>       
>       
>         Weird and flaky, help w/a path to troubleshooting appreciated
>         :).
>         
>         Will
>         
>         
>       
    
    Also, just noticed that
      the above contained:
      
    ssid Phoenix nwkey
      65536:"",0x299ab4bb1d4a60ce4a701469277efb16,"","" 
    
      wtf? is that really a usable key to access the network or is it
      some kinda hash? If so, is it reversible? I dug through docs, but
      couldn't figure it out.
      
      - will