Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:49:31 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Niki Denev <nike_d@cytexbg.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ipw problems Message-ID: <200508031149.31928.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200508022252.33933.nike_d@cytexbg.com> References: <200508022252.33933.nike_d@cytexbg.com>
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--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--
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