BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

[Waitman Gobble]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Thomas D. Dean <tomdean at speakeasy.org>wrote:

> FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012.
>
> I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter.
>
> I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router.
>
> > cat rc.conf
> ...
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
> wlans_bwn0="wlan0"
> ...
>
> > cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> network={
>   ssid="tddhome"
>   psk="...."
> }
>
> # wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ddt
> ...
>  0:  < the correct router> ssid='' wpa_ie_len=22 ...
>   skip - SSID mismatch
> ...
>
> The interface is seeing the correct router
> > ifconfig -v wlan0 list scan
> ...
>
> SSID<tddhome> ... WPA<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-PSK> ...
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Tom Dean
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Hi,

I don't recall connecting with CCMP (maybe there's no issue!!!) but check
the router settings. For some reason I remember having to set mine to use
TKIP. An idea. (?)


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