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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:26:02 +0200
From:      Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: debugging a Wifi association problem
Message-ID:  <20190717202602.397ca542@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190717173532.GA3766@c720-r342378>
References:  <20190717053826.GA3090@c720-r342378> <20190717090543.4e0ac69f@gmail.com> <20190717173532.GA3766@c720-r342378>

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On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:35:32 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día miércoles, julio 17, 2019 a las 09:05:43a. m. +0200, Vladimir Botka escribió:
> > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:38:26 +0200
> > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
> >   
> > > ... The association requests are always rejected with a package
> > > CTRL-EVENT-ASSOC-REJECT with 'status_code=1'...
> > > Do we have any tool in FreeBSD to monitor/debug this problem between the
> > > device in question and the AP? Any other ideas?  
> > 
> > Best practice is to sniff packets and see what's going on.
> > http://www.wireless-nets.com/resources/tutorials/sniff_packets_wireshark.html
> 
> I installed wireshark-2.6.5_2 in my FreeBSD (CURRENT from December last
> year). I tried to enable from
> 	View --> [x] Wireless Toolbar
> but this gives an error about "Failed to initialize ws80211" in the GUI
> and I can not set the channel or Frequency. Is this not possible with
> FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is not needed to analyse the the problem. Use whatever system is able
to set wifi card into the "monitor" mode and sniff the packets first. The
link below is complete how to do it
https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN
When you got the data analyse it with wireshark. The captured data might grow
fast.

Cheers,

	-vlado

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