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Date:      Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:06:25 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        George <yo9fah@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless network Broadcom not connected
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On 21 October 2012 16:03, George <yo9fah@gmail.com> wrote:

> root@fbsd:/home/yo9fah # ifconfig wlan0 list scan
> SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> D.O.D           34:08:04:08:3c:14    1   54M -133:-95  100 EPS  WPS HTCAP
> WME
> Nutunet         28:10:7b:62:fc:28    6   54M -129:-95  100 EP HTCAP WPA RSN
> WME WPS
> YO9FAH          00:22:6b:e9:5e:7a    6   54M -114:-95  100 EP   RSN WME
> cla@alex        f4:ec:38:cb:53:42    4   54M -124:-95  100 EPS  RSN WPA WME
> HTCAP ATH WPS
> TRENDnet        00:14:d1:34:6b:8e    6   54M -139:-95  100 EPS

See how those RSSI values are all below -95? That's really quite
creepy and worth investigating.

> root@fbsd:/home/yo9fah # ifconfig wlan0 list sta
> ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
> 00:22:6b:e9:5e:7a    1    6  54M 63.5    0    112  47296 EP AQE     RSN WME
> root@fbsd:/home/yo9fah #

Same deal here. RSSI here is 0. That's invalid and bad looking. I'd
rather look at trying to fix that up before moving on to the crypto
side of things.

Have you configured the AP in open (non-WEP/WPA) mode to see if it works?



Adrian



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