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Subject: Re: if_bwn woes
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On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ifconfig wlan0 scan results in no output and takes forever (ie - it
>>>>> hangs)
>>>> If you set wlan0 for manual roaming it will not hang.
>>>>
>>>> Use 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' instead.
>>> That worked, thanks.
>>>
>>> dhclient still results in no link being found.
>>
>> Are you sure that you setup is correct?
>> For example you can not connect to AP which require RSN authmode
>> if you configure wlan0 for OPEN authmode, you also may not
>> connect to AP if you are far away, because you are able
>> to receive and send doesn't mean AP can see your packets ........
>>
>> Try changing ucastrate to lower values.
>>
>
> I'm not really sure what ucastrate does - but here it goes:
>
> $ifconfig wlan0 list scan|head -1
> xyz 00:23:xx:yy:zz:aa:bb 1 54M -125:-95 102 E HTCAP WME
> $ifconfig wlan0 ssid xyz
> $dhclient wlan0
> ... no link ...
> $ifconfig wlan0 ucastrate 9
> $dhclient wlan0
> ... no link ...
> $ifconfig wlan0 ucastrate 1
> $dhclient wlan0
> ... no link ...
>
> I'm fairly sure that I'm in an area where the signal reaches because
> when I was using the ndis driver (on an old install) it worked.
> This is a fresh install now.

Looks like you cant associate at all.
Also signal power is too low.

Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ?