(starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

[Jonathan M. Slivko]

Hello Bill,

Hmmmm..... that's odd. I guess the WiFi card works perfectly elsewhere?
-- Jonathan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Schoolcraft [mailto:bill at wiliweld.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 12:43 AM
To: jonathan at slivko.org
Cc: 'Bill Schoolcraft'; 'bsd'
Subject: RE: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 it looks like Jonathan M. Slivko composed:

> Hello,
>
> Have you tried watching the wifi session in debug mode and see if it's
> erroring somewhere? (i.e. their WiFi network doesn't like your laptop
since
> it's running *BSD, I know that my starbucks connection doesn't like my
> laptop sometimes). It could also be that the WiFi network is scanning for
> the WiFi client on the machine, and when it doesn't find it - it won't
allow
> it to log on.
>
> -- Jonathan

Thanks Jonathan,

No, I have not tried wifi in debug mode, will have to find how
to do so and try it.  I do tail /var/log/messages and in some
cases actually see the connection get created to the AP, it's
then that I launch my browser and all is well.  If I launch my
browser prior to seeing the ack from the AP I seem to mess the
parade up.

I have found that if I wait till I'm in "X" and have a root
xterm going "then" insert my card I can watch the full ballet
between the nic and the AP and have my browser ready to launch.

Then all is well.


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