[solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Fri Oct 8 00:15:24 UTC 2010


Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked.
I can now connect to the internet.

I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the
raw commands though.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/7/10, 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).
>>
>> Well, force it to stay on channel 1 all the time.
>>
> I destroyed and recreated wlan0 with the channel 1
> Now it stopped cycling but bwn0 now says "no carrier" as well.
>
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
>



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