Re: finding access points
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"