From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 19:24:09 2004 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 39DE716A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:24:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A635443D55 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:24:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (bzq-82-80-223-81.red.bezeqint.net [82.80.223.81]) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3E75A63; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:24:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id F1A8941D4; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:24:02 +0200 (IST) To: rafege@mail.com References: <41CF9DB0.nailF1W1WJMAN@mail.com> <41CF9FE1.9050207@math.missouri.edu> <41D02B8A.nailF913QOR3C@mail.com> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:24:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <41D02B8A.nailF913QOR3C@mail.com> (Gary E. RAFE's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:34:34 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: stephen@math.missouri.edu cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi Access Point Discovery Tools ? 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: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:24:09 -0000 rafege@mail.com (Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.) writes: > !Have you tried > ! > !wicontrol wi0 -l > > Sorry about the earlier note -- the coffee hadn't kicked in yet... > > wicontrol wi0 -l > > for either card reports "0 stations" > with one powered & sitting less than 4 meters away. > [...] > So, what's up with access point discovery in 5.3-R ? It definitely works for me, using either a builtin mini-PCI (intel card using ipw) or PCCARD (lucent or US-robotics cards using wi). Further, I hardly ever need to do that manually since dhclient usually just DTRT for me (see the archives of this list for the terms: "media ssid dhclient.conf" once you get to this point). I've had it work on campus, at home, various coffeeshops, and at airports, including one where the DHCP servers gave you bad IP and DNS information and you had to manually configure things just to be able to see the auto-redirected web login page. But in all cases it found the access point alright, sometimes even picking up and preferring one of my neighbors', who seems to have installed a super-duper megawatt fry-a-lot antenna for his. -- Dan Pelleg