From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 15 22:45:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3C65416A415 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:45:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D3643D5A for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:45:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so623826uge for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:45:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iqx7uO1jlbBglRaZiPrcSWq1qNYvpL4SyC94P6hovPhSbxNpgMs2TDg81b96eOLuPKWFq9vxXBuTu5hhr9n0jMWuXBLJ8egcO95sTNEF/nTsbHprip5WsSvllB03Hi2awNivo7hrL6shueCIE/6F18t61K/PHCVB8JlqOZsMotw= Received: by 10.66.221.19 with SMTP id t19mr7279159ugg; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.18 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20610151545j6fcc26edm52e5a4a8e799e38c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:45:24 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610081327s13d0ce81s67111d60df67bc55@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20610060523y636701b7md93ae0d586ef69fe@mail.gmail.com> <1160145794.5951.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <80f4f2b20610060802o4c6a91b3h15d468c45477f916@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610061530s4ac88289w16cb97cdbd9f52ef@mail.gmail.com> <20061006224342.GL65912@e.0x20.net> <80f4f2b20610061622k522ec869x5b8340701535faf8@mail.gmail.com> <20061007224949.GB62285@e.0x20.net> <80f4f2b20610081229p1a9d19dcw325f83850c6aaadb@mail.gmail.com> <452957B7.1040500@errno.com> <80f4f2b20610081327s13d0ce81s67111d60df67bc55@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g 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: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:45:32 -0000 On 10/8/06, Jim Stapleton wrote: > On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler wrote: > > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > > On 10/7/06, Lars Engels wrote: > > >> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > >> > OK, that's interesting, I tried, that, and got this: > > >> > > > >> > ural0: > > >> flags=108843 mtu > > >> > 1500 > > >> > inet6 fe80::215:e9ff:fe2d:72c3%ural0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 > > >> > inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 49.49.253.171 > > >> > ether 00:15:e9:2d:72:c3 > > >> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps (OFDM/54Mbps) > > >> > status: no carrier > > >> > ssid mine channel 6 > > >> > authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 100 protmode CTS > > >> > bintval 100 > > >> > > > >> > I've tried replacing wep with wepkey, I've tried weptxkey 1 to 4, no > > >> > luck on any of those. > > >> > > > >> > Any other suggestions? > > >> > > > >> > > >> Perhaps the authmode needs to be set to SHARED? > > >> > > > > > > That didn't work either -- I also tried 8021x and wpa. Both gave me an > > > error: > > > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: invalid argument > > > > "status: no carrier" means you are not associated to the ap. When the > > reason is not obvious I usually do this: > > > > wlandebug -i ural0 scan+auth+assoc > > > > before bringing the interface up w/ ifconfig. The console msgs should > > tell you what's going on. I don't recall if "ifconfig ural0 debug" will > > give you similar info. > > > > Of course it'd be better if the failure code for the last auth/assoc > > attempt was reported by ifconfig in this situation (I think it's > > available by ioctl but can't recall--if not it's easy to add and has > > been done for other systems). > > > > Sam > > > > PS. wlandebug is in src/tools/tools/net80211. > > > > > well, it gave me something that is probably useful - but I've no idea > how to use it. > > sjss@aragorn 16:17:27 (0) ~ > sudo wlandebug -i ural0 scan+auth+assoc > net.wlan.1.debug: 0x0 => 0xe00000 > > > there was no other output. Nothing appeared in dmesg > > thanks, > -Jim Stapleton > addendum: I found a way to get by this problem - it only seems to fail when the mouse is plugged in before the drive, if I plug in the mouse first, the drive fails. I have verified this with anouth drive. This only happens when the mouse is plugged in directly, if the mouse is plugged in via a KVM (as it would be at home), the problem is not observed. -Jim Stapleton