New EU RF directive - regulatory threat

2019-03-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi wirel...@freebsd.org, https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/11/eu_directive_ban_rf_radio_firmware_tink ering/ "Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering" It could impact beyond just wireless devices, ie OS's for routers too. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems

Re: Does FreeBSD periodically transmit all SSIDs its knows of ?

2014-10-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
On 2 October 2014 16:30, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28891937 smartphones and tablets regularly broadcast the SSIDs (service set identifiers), or names, of those networks. Does FreeBSD also periodically transmit all SSIDs its knows

Re: Issues with urtwn

2014-09-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
wpa_gui as a next step. In the upstream, wpa_gui is maintained together with wpa_supplicant by the same maintainer. Therefor wpa_gui has always been working fine with wpa_supplicant and might help you to create a consistent configuration. I too have found wpa_gui useful to detect syntax errs

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I was not aware rc.conf was so sensitive to white space ... I even think it shouldn't. rc.conf script is run by /bin/sh, one can test syntax by typing : /bin/sh . /etc/rc.conf set Good luck. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich

Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

2014-08-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Chris cc wireless@ After reading quite some man pages, I finally have my laptop set up as follows : /etc/rc.conf : ifconfig_wlan0 = ssid myssid ifconfig_wlan0 =mode 11g ifconfig_wlan0 =-bgscan ifconfig_wlan0 = WPA DHCP ( I prefer wired nets only fumble with wireless when I must, but

Re: urtwn panic

2014-04-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Anthony Jenkins wrote: I'm getting a panic with the latest kernel (r264719) and the if_urtwn driver. Might the urtwn device overheat, not return cause a panic ? My urtwn device is very small, no thermal path to dump heat. I've not tried on current, but on 10.0-RELEASE I saw my urtwn0 interface

Re: BCM43225 802.11b/g/n support ?

2013-06-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM43225 802.11b/g/n' OK, Thanks Adrian Allen. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with . Send plain text.

BCM43225 802.11b/g/n support ?

2013-05-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Anyone known of code [to test] for [native] support on 9.1-RELEASE (or current) for (from pciconf -lv ) none3@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0xe021105b chip=0x435714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM43225

Re: iwn(4) link down/up cycling

2013-05-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
David Wolfskill wrote: And here are some representative log entries for the latter: May 28 00:00:00 g1-241 kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN May 28 00:00:03 g1-241 kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP May 28 04:31:22 g1-241 kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN May 28