Re: Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g

"Jim Stapleton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jim Stapleton wrote:
> > On 10/7/06, Lars Engels <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote:
> >> > OK, that's interesting, I tried, that, and got this:
> >> >
> >> > ural0:
> >> flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu
> >> > 1500
> >> >        inet6 fe80::215:e9ff:fe2d:72c3%ural0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> >> >        inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 49.49.253.171
> >> >        ether 00:15:e9:2d:72:c3
> >> >        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps (OFDM/54Mbps)
> >> >        status: no carrier
> >> >        ssid mine channel 6
> >> >        authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 100 protmode CTS
> >> >        bintval 100
> >> >
> >> > I've tried replacing wep with wepkey, I've tried weptxkey 1 to 4, no
> >> > luck on any of those.
> >> >
> >> > Any other suggestions?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Perhaps the authmode needs to be set to SHARED?
> >>
> >
> > That didn't work either -- I also tried 8021x and wpa. Both gave me an
> > error:
> > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: invalid argument
>
> "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@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
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