Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:58:50 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@gmail.com> To: "'Bill Schoolcraft'" <bill@wiliweld.com>, <jonathan@slivko.org> Cc: 'Bill Schoolcraft' <runfreebsd@yahoo.com>, 'bsd' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss) Message-ID: <42b2f2c4.16662b8b.45b1.ffff8464@mx.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050616213746.V13349@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>
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Hello Bill, Hmmmm..... that's odd. I guess the WiFi card works perfectly elsewhere? -- Jonathan -- Jonathan M. Slivko - jonathan@slivko.org "Linux: The Choice for the GNU Generation" - http://www.linux.org/ - Don't fear the penguin. .^. /V\ /( )\ ^^-^^ He's here to help. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Schoolcraft [mailto:bill@wiliweld.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 12:43 AM To: jonathan@slivko.org Cc: 'Bill Schoolcraft'; 'bsd' Subject: RE: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss) At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 it looks like Jonathan M. Slivko composed: > Hello, > > Have you tried watching the wifi session in debug mode and see if it's > erroring somewhere? (i.e. their WiFi network doesn't like your laptop since > it's running *BSD, I know that my starbucks connection doesn't like my > laptop sometimes). It could also be that the WiFi network is scanning for > the WiFi client on the machine, and when it doesn't find it - it won't allow > it to log on. > > -- Jonathan Thanks Jonathan, No, I have not tried wifi in debug mode, will have to find how to do so and try it. I do tail /var/log/messages and in some cases actually see the connection get created to the AP, it's then that I launch my browser and all is well. If I launch my browser prior to seeing the ack from the AP I seem to mess the parade up. I have found that if I wait till I'm in "X" and have a root xterm going "then" insert my card I can watch the full ballet between the nic and the AP and have my browser ready to launch. Then all is well. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 "UNIX, A Way of Life." http://billschoolcraft.com
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