if_bwn woes

[Eitan Adler]

Sorry for the reply-to-self

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>>> Looks like you cant associate at all.
>>>> Also signal power is too low.
>>>>
>>>> Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ?
>>>
>>> These are the defaults - I have no idea what these numbers mean. What
>>> should/could I be changing?
>>
>> I doubt that AP have capatibility to change that.
>> Anyway maybe you could associate if your txpower is big enough...
>>
>
> Sorry - I realized a brief portion of out conversation was done off-list.
>
> I just noticed that when I put in the ssid ifconfig seems to be
> cycling among multiple channels (1,5, 11,12,13 ,14 and maybe others).
>
> I'm not sure what this behavior means.
>
> What would the best way see why I can't connect be?
>
> I tried
> $ifconfig wlan0 txpower 50
> but txpower stays at 30.
>
> Is this for sure a signal strength problem? it worked when I used ndis
> from the same location.
>
...


I also noticed that bwn0 says status: associated while wlan0 says
status: no carrier


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Eitan Adler