Re: finding access points

"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
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> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:25:36 +0200
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22K=2EAndr=E9_Braselmann=22?= <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> kalin mintchev wrote:
> 
> > access point pinging...  apparently people using windows dont have that
> > problem in those locations.. i tried dstumbler from the bsd-airtools to
> > see if i can detect any ap but still nothing shows up....
> 
> you have to know the SSID, setup the interface with the SSID (nothing 
> more) and then use the dhclient(8) e.g.
> 
> #dhclient wi0
> 
> to get the stuff from the DHCP Server. be careful:-)

I used to have the same problem until I forced ifconfig to explicitly
turn off WEP and reset the SSID to a null string. In /etc/start_if.wi0 I
set:
ifconfig wi0 wepmode off ssid ""
and in /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"

It now finds open APs, associates, and starts dhclient without a problem.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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