From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 11 14:31:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 5A31116A541 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 14:31:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9E943DF2 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:57:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [192.168.1.248] ([137.122.39.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k4BDvmta032822 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 11 May 2006 06:57:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <446342DD.3050302@errno.com> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:57:49 -0400 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kaspars Bankovskis References: <20060510070406.GA8103@kierun.org> <20060510155149.68d6c8ea@localhost> <20060510140605.GA17716@kierun.org> <20060510202247.5b7166e1@localhost> <20060511065246.GA27635@kierun.org> <20060511101032.0997087d@localhost.kei.lv> In-Reply-To: <20060511101032.0997087d@localhost.kei.lv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC--Metrics: ebb.errno.com 1328; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ath0, netgear WG311T problem. [SOLVED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:31:27 -0000 Kaspars Bankovskis wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006 07:52:46 +0100 > Yann Golanski wrote: > >> Many thank indeed, that did indeed solve the problem. >> >> Now, all I need to do is to use some encryption and some find some >> monitoring software to give me signal strength and things like that. >> Any recommendations on either? > > in Gnome desktop there is that small applet called Network Monitor, i > use it to see signal strength on my atheros card. > just to see available networks "ifconfig ath0 scan" is just fine. > Note that ifconfig ath0 scan will _initiate_ a scan. To view the current results in the cache use ifconfig ath0 list scan Beware the cache contents are timed out and the current system does not do background scanning so if the cache is empty you'll need to manually force a scan to be done. But doing this will disassociate the station from the ap until after the scan is completed. Sam