From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 15:34:24 2003 Return-Path: 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 7A5DE37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB17543FA3 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from master.dougb.net (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com[12.234.22.23]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <20030426223422003006d99ge>; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:34:22 +0000 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:34:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030426.110231.99254364.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20030426150924.H13476@znfgre.qbhto.arg> References: <20030424.195012.00542650.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030425133754.C35038@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <20030426.110231.99254364.imp@bsdimp.com> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script to automatically configure a wireless card based on ssid X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:34:24 -0000 On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > What does wicontrol -l tell you? Are you doing something like > ifconfig wi0 ssid WLAN did you? As I mentioned in the original report, from a status of the interface totally not present, kernel module not loaded; I am doing 'wi0 powersave; wi0 up', which WAS getting me this: wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 ether 00:09:5b:31:2d:2f media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: associated ssid WLAN 1:WLAN stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 11 authmode OPEN powersavemode CAM powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 Last night, I played around with this some more, and I got: status: associated ssid WLAN 1:"" And now I'm getting: status: no carrier ssid "" 1:"" Argh. I'll try the wicontrol -l the next time I see WLAN. I'm still willing to buy your theory that it's a real AP, but I'm curious about how they could hide that fact from netstumbler. Someone else suggested that it might be a 2.4 GHz phone that's giving off enough signal to fool the card. > Also, once associated, the card won't report other cards... I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this. Even when I saw the WLAN ssid, if I subsequently did 'ifconfig wi0 wepmode mixed' then it saw my actual AP, correct ssid, etc. Thanks for looking at all this, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection