Thanks. NetworkManager is installed but is turned off - its daemon does not run, and the network device is not marked as controlled by Network Manager.
The access point I'm testing with is in a building across town, so will take me a while to repeat the tests. But the exact error message is "not associated" perhaps capitalized, but those words. I just did a test here at home - there are a couple of access points there this morning, tho I don't have permission to use them. Here is complete results >>> after "ifconfig wlan0 up" wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:E9:D9:CC:B4 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) >>> after "iwlist wlan0 scan" wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:69:4B:D3:FD Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality=30/70 Signal level=-80 dBm Encryption key:on ESSID:"Gray" Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Mode:Master Extra:tsf=00000255336bcb05 Extra: Last beacon: 539ms ago IE: Unknown: 000447726179 IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C IE: Unknown: 030106 IE: Unknown: 2A0104 IE: Unknown: 2F0104 IE: Unknown: 32040C121860 IE: Unknown: DD7E0050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010138140001DD211B29FFFC67E816B4BFB102100074C696E6B73797310230006526F7574657210240007575254353447321042000C43535630314A3236373931301054000800060050F204000110110011576972656C6573732D4720526F75746572100800020088 IE: Unknown: DD090010180200F4000000 IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK >>> after iwconfig wlan0 essid any wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 jhhaynes at earthlink dot net _______________________________________________ ath5k-users mailing list ath5k-users@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users