From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 16 22:46:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E28416A4DD for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:46:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from neshort@yahoo.com) Received: from web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1BFE43D7E for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:46:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neshort@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 65945 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Jul 2006 22:46:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=hhOtXSd/4/B9+EcWbZW606iNm+or84kV3w/Q5kpiAPj2QEwjH/6ygvxDAdi9tmmaiIaAMCYpLz11ahSFFTOij+HmebhwcXQEg9RawWDc1nrGRrg1KNmq+s13I3Lf03Gngv/QsKEwupUW83oc04UZ4DA98pundeQXb/ivQypBFKE= ; Message-ID: <20060716224642.65943.qmail@web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.221.134.150] by web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:46:42 PDT Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:46:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Short To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060716120036.7FDFE16A532@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: ath (Orinoco) card cannot associate X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:46:55 -0000 ... status: no carrier ... Sometimes this means the card has been turned off. My computer has a little switch on it that enables me to turn it off. If you run: # ifconfig ath0 scan and you can see your access point then there is no problem with your card; but if it does not show up then there is a physical problem with your card (broken? turned off?) or your access point is down. As a simple test, can you bring up your access point wide open and connect to it? If you can then the problem might be related to your ifconfig statement. I am surprised to see such a long wep key. You might try simplifying your statemnt and avoid the "wepkey" keyword. I spent probably a week with that keyword and it simply didn't work. A helpful responder in the mailing lists suggest I use instead the "nwkey" keyword. Man, it was almost like magic. I was sure I had done everything right - and I had; but "wepkey" for some reason didn't work. It's there in the manpage for ifconfig. Give it a whirl. Good luck. ====== Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; and he is able to bring low those who walk in pride. Daniel 4:37 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com