Wireless network Broadcom not connected

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 22 00:08:40 UTC 2012


Don't rush things.

* disable encrypion;
* associate, then "ifconfig wlanX list sta";
* then "ifconfig wlan0", let's see what it's configured as;
* do you run DHCP? Or is it static?
* Can you ping the IP of the network gateway?


adrian


On 21 October 2012 17:05, George <yo9fah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pe 22.10.2012 02:06, Adrian Chadd a scris:
>
>> On 21 October 2012 16:03, George <yo9fah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> root at fbsd:/home/yo9fah # ifconfig wlan0 list scan
>>> SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
>>> D.O.D           34:08:04:08:3c:14    1   54M -133:-95  100 EPS  WPS HTCAP
>>> WME
>>> Nutunet         28:10:7b:62:fc:28    6   54M -129:-95  100 EP HTCAP WPA
>>> RSN
>>> WME WPS
>>> YO9FAH          00:22:6b:e9:5e:7a    6   54M -114:-95  100 EP   RSN WME
>>> cla at alex        f4:ec:38:cb:53:42    4   54M -124:-95  100 EPS  RSN WPA
>>> WME
>>> HTCAP ATH WPS
>>> TRENDnet        00:14:d1:34:6b:8e    6   54M -139:-95  100 EPS
>>
>> See how those RSSI values are all below -95? That's really quite
>> creepy and worth investigating.
>>
>>> root at fbsd:/home/yo9fah # ifconfig wlan0 list sta
>>> ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
>>> 00:22:6b:e9:5e:7a    1    6  54M 63.5    0    112  47296 EP AQE     RSN
>>> WME
>>> root at fbsd:/home/yo9fah #
>>
>> Same deal here. RSSI here is 0. That's invalid and bad looking. I'd
>> rather look at trying to fix that up before moving on to the crypto
>> side of things.
>>
>> Have you configured the AP in open (non-WEP/WPA) mode to see if it works?
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>
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> I disabled  my  router  to  WPA2-personal,but  it  will not  work  either.Do
> not give  any error  but the result is  the same...
>
> root at fbsd:/home/yo9fah # ping google.com
> ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure
> root at fbsd:/home/yo9fah #
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