From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 00:15:24 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 065471065670 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 00:15:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11218FC14 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 00:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws2 with SMTP id 2so180802vws.13 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.192.77 with SMTP id dp13mr475329vcb.82.1286496922754; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:15:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.96.139 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:15:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 00:15:02 +0000 Message-ID: To: Paul B Mahol Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: [solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes 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, 08 Oct 2010 00:15:24 -0000 Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. I can now connect to the internet. I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the raw commands though. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >>>> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>>> Looks like you cant associate at all. >>>>>> Also signal power is too low. >>>>>> >>>>>> Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ? >>>>> >>>>> These are the defaults - I have no idea what these numbers mean. What >>>>> should/could I be changing? >>>> >>>> I doubt that AP have capatibility to change that. >>>> Anyway maybe you could associate if your txpower is big enough... >>>> >>> >>> Sorry - I realized a brief portion of out conversation was done off-list. >>> >>> I just noticed that when I put in the ssid ifconfig seems to be >>> cycling among multiple channels (1,5, 11,12,13 ,14 and maybe others). >> >> Well, force it to stay on channel 1 all the time. >> > I destroyed and recreated wlan0 with the channel 1 > Now it stopped cycling but bwn0 now says "no carrier" as well. > > > -- > Eitan Adler > -- Eitan Adler