Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g

[Sam Leffler]

Jim Stapleton wrote:
> On 10/7/06, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote:
>> > OK, that's interesting, I tried, that, and got this:
>> >
>> > ural0:
>> flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu
>> > 1500
>> >        inet6 fe80::215:e9ff:fe2d:72c3%ural0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>> >        inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 49.49.253.171
>> >        ether 00:15:e9:2d:72:c3
>> >        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps (OFDM/54Mbps)
>> >        status: no carrier
>> >        ssid mine channel 6
>> >        authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 100 protmode CTS
>> >        bintval 100
>> >
>> > I've tried replacing wep with wepkey, I've tried weptxkey 1 to 4, no
>> > luck on any of those.
>> >
>> > Any other suggestions?
>> >
>>
>> Perhaps the authmode needs to be set to SHARED?
>>
> 
> That didn't work either -- I also tried 8021x and wpa. Both gave me an
> error:
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: invalid argument

"status: no carrier" means you are not associated to the ap.  When the
reason is not obvious I usually do this:

wlandebug -i ural0 scan+auth+assoc

before bringing the interface up w/ ifconfig.  The console msgs should
tell you what's going on.  I don't recall if "ifconfig ural0 debug" will
give you similar info.

Of course it'd be better if the failure code for the last auth/assoc
attempt was reported by ifconfig in this situation (I think it's
available by ioctl but can't recall--if not it's easy to add and has
been done for other systems).

	Sam

PS. wlandebug is in src/tools/tools/net80211.