Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g

Yuri Lukin lists at swaggi.com
Sun Oct 8 14:00:37 PDT 2006


Jim Stapleton wrote ..
> On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
> >
> > "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.
> >
> 
> 
> well, it gave me something that is probably useful - but I've no idea
> how to use it.
> 
> sjss at aragorn 16:17:27 (0) ~ > sudo wlandebug -i ural0 scan+auth+assoc
> net.wlan.1.debug: 0x0 => 0xe00000<assoc,auth,scan>
> 
> 
> there was no other output. Nothing appeared in dmesg
> 
> thanks,
> -Jim Stapleton

Did you bounce the interface via ifconfig? I believe all 
that output says is that debugging was enabled. 




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