From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 02:19:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 54B8E16A41F; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:19:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8577E43D4C; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:19:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp217-188.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.217.188]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j732Jia2000659; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:49:45 +0930 (CST) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.31]) (authenticated bits=0) by midget.dons.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j732JZRe061947 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:49:43 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:49:31 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200508022252.33933.nike_d@cytexbg.com> In-Reply-To: <200508022252.33933.nike_d@cytexbg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1526975.QH3eCdVn0N"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508031149.31928.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 203.122.217.188 Cc: Niki Denev , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ipw problems 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: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 02:19:53 -0000 --nextPart1526975.QH3eCdVn0N Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 03 August 2005 05:22, Niki Denev wrote: > When using exactly the same wpa_supplicant config with different wireless > card (ralink) i can authentitace to a LinkSys WPA54G access point. > But it never works for ipw. > One thing that i discovered is that when i do ifconfig ipw0 scan > there is always one 'fake network' without SSID and with zero macaddr : > > # ifconfig ipw0 scan > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CA= PS > 00:00:00:00:00:00 11 0M 0:0 0 > office.ss 00:0f:66:11:13:1e 11 54M 29:0 100 EP WPA > > This looks really odd, and i can't reproduce it with other wlan cards. > > i cancelled it at this point, but it loops like this forever(or atleast > couple of hours :) ) I get exactly the same thing here - it appears to try and associate with th= e=20 right AP (ie ignores the 00:00.. one) but it doesn't print any error or=20 warning about why it can't do so.. It just retries every 5 seconds forever. Have you tried NDIS for your card? I had a go, but it panic'd :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1526975.QH3eCdVn0N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC8Cmz5ZPcIHs/zowRAp98AJ4kndPuWh67KNQIz1dYVY6XbcRwAQCfYViy cDazDZDw6f9cuV1w3SA3dgI= =5IzA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1526975.QH3eCdVn0N--