From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 21 7: 8:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F0C37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA3543FB1 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:08:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB603F4E; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:08:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: Bruce M Simpson Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:08:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: wi0 has status "no carrier" Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3E7AE4B2.10590.EC42C67@localhost> In-reply-to: <20030321134901.GV11628@spc.org> References: <3E7ACDF0.14858.E6B44B9@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21 Mar 2003 at 13:49, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Also, I would suggest that you look at wicontrol(8) output to see what's > going on with the card; the ifmedia interface doesn't report everything > that's going on. Check what your *port mode* is set to; it should be 1 > for adhoc, 3 for using an access point, 7 for monitor mode. Port mode == Port type? Mine has port type = 1. And wicontrol claims that 1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc Here is the wicontrol output. Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ] SSID for IBSS creation: [ test ] Current netname (SSID): [ test ] Desired netname (SSID): [ test ] Current BSSID: [ 44:44:44:44:44:44 ] Channel list: [ 2047 ] IBSS channel: [ 10 ] Current channel: [ 10 ] Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 27 27 ] Promiscuous mode: [ Off ] Process 802.11b Frame: [ Off ] Intersil-Prism2 based card: [ 0 ] Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 1 ] TX rate (selection): [ 3 ] 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: [ ][ ][ ][ ] > Some prism2dump/dstumbler investigation might not hurt either, say with > another card or box, then you can at least observe what management PDUs > are going out over the RF, if communication with the access point is > the real problem. I have two wireless cards, and I'm running dstumbler on a desktop box which has both a wired NIC and a PCI interface for a PCMCIA card. I'm not seeing any traffic. I run "dstumbler wi0 -n" and I'm not seeing any output at all. cheers -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message