Re: dstumbler crashes freebsd

On  0, Chris Doherty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:26:05PM -0500, Andrew Y Ng said: 
> > Hi, so I'll be at the airport for a good few hours tomorrow so I think I'm
> > going to use Boingo or something like that to get online. Obviously FreeBSD
> > or Linux aren't officially supported. But I guess all I need is a tool to
> > scan for SSIDs. Right now I can do `wicontrol -L` as root and I think it
> > detects APs. I also tried dstumbler when it was mentioned on this list last
> > week, but for some reason when I tried it today, like with `sudo dstumbler
> > wi0`, it just crashes my laptop. I was playing with ifconfig and wicontrol
> > and it crashed my laptop also.
> 
> what version are you using? I've used dstumbler on
> 
> 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #14: Wed Dec 18 07:53:23 PST 2002

here's mine:
FreeBSD home.andrewng.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #4: Wed Nov 27
02:07:43 CST 2002     [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/compile/AYN
i386

it's weird coz I was able to use it before, but now when I do it it
completely crashes my laptop. :(

> with wi driving a Lucent Orinoco card without any problems, and it works
> fine (dwepdump doesn't seem to work with that card, but that's a different
> problem).
> 
> wi also auto-associates for me. FWIW, though, I've yet to discover a
> wireless network in an airport. :-)

my girlfriend was able to use her iBook at LAX with Boingo a week ago, the
Austin airport has Boingo and Wayport. They're not free, but the price is
pretty reasonable considering i will be stuck there for a few hours
tomorrow... :(


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