From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 22:05:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DC916A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:05:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from oak3a.cats.ohiou.edu (oak3a.cats.ohiou.edu [132.235.8.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3F243D41 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:05:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ta168000@oak.cats.ohiou.edu) Received: from 132.235.8.45 by pm3 for 0s (PureMessage); Thu Oct 7 17:46:34 2004 Received: from oak1a.cats.ohiou.edu (oak1a.cats.ohiou.edu [132.235.8.45]) by oak2a.cats.ohiou.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i97LkXq11249961 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:46:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:46:33 -0400 (EDT) From: ta168000@oak.cats.ohiou.edu X-X-Sender: ta168000@oak1a.cats.ohiou.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.1.0, Antispam-Data: 2004.10.7.1 (pm3) X-PMX-Information: http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/email/filtering/ X-PMX-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Association Problem with Multiple APs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:05:16 -0000 Hello list, I am running the 4.9 release of FreeBSD on an embedded net4521 box and my problem is: Recently a wireless ISP put up an antenna in our apartment complex. Now for some reason, my 4521 (and my iBook with regular AirPort, also BSD based??) favor the wireless ISP's connection over my own LinkSys access point. The ISP's antenna runs on channel 1 and consistently has a stronger signal than my own AP (channel 6). I have tried changing my own AP's channel to no avail. Each time I issue the commands to associate with my AP the 4521 merely connects to the ISP rather than my specified SSID. If I check wicontrol or ifconfig it reports that the desired netname is my AP, but the current netname always ends up to be the ISP's AP. This is extremely irritating. I recently got a wireless card (NL-2511CD Plus EXT2 802.11b PCMCIA by SENAO) w/ the prism 2.5 chipset, and the aforementioned problem is only with this card. My older card (a 3com 3CRWE737A PCMCIA) works *relatively* well, but I wanted to upgrade so... Has anyone had this problem, and does anyone have a suggestion to fix it? Any insight into the BSD or the OS X problem would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.. Tyler --------------------------------------------------------- Below is specific info if anyone cares to peruse it: --------------------------------------------------------- ---> The Senao Card Initalizes: pccard: card inserted, slot 0 Mar 15 22:30:14 soekrismini1 pccardd[58]: Card "INTERSIL"("HFA384x/IEEE") [Version 01.02] [] matched "INTERSIL" ("HFA384x/IEEE") [(null)] [(null)] wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0 wi0: 802.11 address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873 wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.01.00, Station 1.04.09 Mar 15 22:30:19 soekrismini1 pccardd[58]: wi0: INTERSIL (HFA384x/IEEE) inserted ---> I try to join my desired access point: ifconfig wi0 inet ssid "My Access Point" media DS/11Mbps ---> and the card joins the access point of the wireless ISP (Which has a stronger signal) instead... wi0: flags=8842 mtu 1500 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps status: associated ssid StupidAssISP 1:"My Access Point" stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 ---> wicontrol -L lists: NIC serial number: [ ] Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ] SSID for IBSS creation: [ My Access Point ] Current netname (SSID): [ StupidAssISP ] Desired netname (SSID): [ My Access Point ] Current BSSID: [ xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xy ] Channel list: [ 2047 ] IBSS channel: [ 3 ] Current channel: [ 1 ] Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 92 154 11 ] Promiscuous mode: [ Off ] Process 802.11b Frame: [ Off ] Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 1 ] Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ] MAC address: [ xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ] TX rate (selection): [ 11 ] TX rate (actual speed): [ 2 ] RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ] Create IBSS: [ Off ] Access point density: [ 1 ] Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ] Max sleep time: [ 100 ] WEP encryption: [ Off ] TX encryption key: [ 1 ] Encryption keys: [ ][ ][ ][ ] Available APs: StupidAssISP [ xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xy ] [ 1 ] [ 46 60 14 ] 100 [ ess ] [ 1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 ] * 11.0 * My Access Point [ xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xz ] [ 6 ] [ 31 42 11 ] 100 [ ess ] [ 1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 ] * 1.0 * ---> Incidentally, it works correctly with the above process with the card below: soekrismini1 pccardd[58]: Card "3Com"("3CRWE737A AirConnect Wireless LAN PC Card") [1.00] [[none]] matched "3Com" ("3CRWE737A AirConnect Wireless LAN PC Card") [(null)] [(null)] wi0 at port 0x280-0x2c7 iomem 0xd5000-0xd53ff irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0 wi0: 802.11 address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 wi0: Symbol Firmware: Primary 2.01.02, Station 2.51.04 Mar 15 22:41:21 soekrismini1 pccardd[58]: wi0: 3Com (3CRWE737A AirConnect Wireless LAN PC Card) inserted.