From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 15 15:03:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42F9106568B for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A248E8FC0C for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NVnhH-0007cq-Gw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:03:01 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NVnh4-0000lA-Qk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:47 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0FF2YQL084582 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:34 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0FF2YUh084581 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:34 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:34 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100115150234.GF83945@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Subject: wireless ath - unable to get scan results X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:03:03 -0000 This is my first wireless attempt. Please don't shoot me for asking obvious questions. This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT sparc64 I've TL-WN851N PCI wireless card. I see in dmesg: ath0: mem 0x110000-0x11ffff at device 3.0 on pci0 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 and with pciconf -lv ath0@pci0:0:3:0: class=0x028000 card=0x2091168c chip=0x0029168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class = network and with ifconfig # ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:27:19:e1:b7:d9 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier # Does this look ok so far? Following the manual I try to scan for available networks, but get this message immediately, so it doesn't look like it's searching for anything # ifconfig ath0 scan ifconfig: unable to get scan results # I've in kernel config file: device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 # enable AR5416 tx/rx descriptors device wlan device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support and also this firewall line options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK but I've no /etc/ipf.rules yet Perhaps it's my firewall that's blocking everything? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423