Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:18:56 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= <faust64@gmail.com> To: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi interface - scanning ssid Message-ID: <ce5f79aa0911230618i4d5cb79dm9b35c4c9227bc0ab@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750911230610h5649b1cbm65cfda1f1e133417@mail.gmail.com> References: <ce5f79aa0911230333t4c4112caifa7f9a360d6afd7a@mail.gmail.com> <ce5f79aa0911230537k659c0adasf876aecddcc9b165@mail.gmail.com> <3a142e750911230610h5649b1cbm65cfda1f1e133417@mail.gmail.com>
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It is up
in my script, I do the following:
ifconfig $itf down
ifconfig $itf delete
ifconfig $itf up scan &
var=3D$!
#some loop waiting ifconfig to stop, or killing it after 30 seconds
eval `ifconfig -v $itf list scan | sed 's/ome/reg/expr' | awk '{toto}'`
Samuel Mart=EDn Moro
CamTrace
{EPITECH.} tek4
| "Nobody wants to say how this works. |
| Maybe nobody knows ..." |
| Xorg.conf(5) |
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/09, Samuel Mart=EDn Moro <faust64@gmail.com> wrote:
> > that may help:
> >
> > my uname:
> > FreeBSD devel.axis.fr 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 14
> > 15:26:50 CEST 2009 root@h2g2.axis.fr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> >
> > in rc.conf:
> > hostapd/dhcpd/ifconfig_rum0 are commented
> >
> > wlan_xauth is loaded
> >
> > ~# ifconfig rum0 down
> > ~# ifconfig rum0 delete
> > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address
> > ~# ifconfig rum0 destroy
> > ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument
> > ~# ifconfig rum0
> > rum0: flags=3D108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 m=
tu
> 1500
> > ether 00:18:1a:0c:65:2f
> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hosta=
p>
> > status: no carrier
> > ssid 1921680452 channel 2 (2417 Mhz 11g)
> > authmode AUTO privacy OFF txpower 50 scanvalid 60 bgscan
> > bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5
> > protmode CTS dtimperiod 1
> >
> > before, my card was listed by pciconf (but isn't anymore), as noneX
> > now, I can view it using usbdevs:
> > [...]
> > port 4 addr 2: high speed, power 300 mA, config 1, 802.11 bg
> WLAN(0x2573),
> > Ralink(0x148f), rev 0.01
> > [...]
> >
> > I used to test WIFI with two different chipset.
> > I generated the first driver using ndisgen, and compiled back the kerne=
l
> > (adding some lines into headers) to deal with the second one.
> > I don't remember which one I use here. But my problem might come from a
> bad
> > driver. (but most likely: PEBKAC)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> >
> > Samuel Mart=EDn Moro
> > CamTrace
> > {EPITECH.} tek4
> >
> > | "Nobody wants to say how this works. |
> > | Maybe nobody knows ..." |
> > | Xorg.conf(5) |
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Samuel Mart=EDn Moro
> > <faust64@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I'm trying to list ssid neighborhood.
> >> doing ifconfig rum0 scan or ifconfig rum0 list scan, there isn't any
> >> returned row.
> >>
> >> it perfectly works a few days ago, when I was working on a script to
> >> configure WIFI interfaces as client.
> >> more recently, I tried to do a script to configure WIFI interfaces as
> >> access points. since that, all my scan/list scan are empty.
> >>
> >> by the way, while testing, I wasn't able to reset interface
> configuration
> >> (and maybe it's my list/scan) problem.
> >> I tried with delete, ... It still keeps the old conf, when I'ld like t=
o
> >> drop it. How should I do ?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >> Samuel Mart=EDn Moro
> >> CamTrace
> >> {EPITECH.} tek4
> >>
> >> | "Nobody wants to say how this works. |
> >> | Maybe nobody knows ..." |
> >> | Xorg.conf(5) |
> >>
>
> You need to bring interface up, before scanning.
>
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