Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:53:52 -0500 From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> To: Chris Doherty <chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dstumbler crashes freebsd Message-ID: <20021224025352.GB559@AndrewNg.com> In-Reply-To: <20021224024859.GE12744@zot.electricrain.com> References: <20021224012605.GA31812@AndrewNg.com> <20021224024859.GE12744@zot.electricrain.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 0, Chris Doherty <chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:26:05PM -0500, Andrew Y Ng said: > > Hi, so I'll be at the airport for a good few hours tomorrow so I think I'm > > going to use Boingo or something like that to get online. Obviously FreeBSD > > or Linux aren't officially supported. But I guess all I need is a tool to > > scan for SSIDs. Right now I can do `wicontrol -L` as root and I think it > > detects APs. I also tried dstumbler when it was mentioned on this list last > > week, but for some reason when I tried it today, like with `sudo dstumbler > > wi0`, it just crashes my laptop. I was playing with ifconfig and wicontrol > > and it crashed my laptop also. > > what version are you using? I've used dstumbler on > > 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #14: Wed Dec 18 07:53:23 PST 2002 here's mine: FreeBSD home.andrewng.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #4: Wed Nov 27 02:07:43 CST 2002 root@aynlaptop.austin.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/AYN i386 it's weird coz I was able to use it before, but now when I do it it completely crashes my laptop. :( > with wi driving a Lucent Orinoco card without any problems, and it works > fine (dwepdump doesn't seem to work with that card, but that's a different > problem). > > wi also auto-associates for me. FWIW, though, I've yet to discover a > wireless network in an airport. :-) my girlfriend was able to use her iBook at LAX with Boingo a week ago, the Austin airport has Boingo and Wayport. They're not free, but the price is pretty reasonable considering i will be stuck there for a few hours tomorrow... :( -- andrew y ng <ayn@andrewng.com> http://andrewng.com gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 9BFC594C fingerprint : 46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj4HzEAACgkQvtjogpv8WUwCfwCff4tvtXUBsx526u0XHPrRjfAJ gf0An2YHBdKJt6n9N80RdqHMIjP3Za7E =0izV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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