Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 02 June 2007, Larry Finger wrote: > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"ICECAP4NIGHTCAP" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:12:0E:12:68:D5 > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B > Encryption key: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
The MAC address is the address of the AP that it associated with. It is Cell 02 below. > But that AP mac address is NOT the wap11. It should be, unless that's the > mac > of the broadcom in this lappy, 00:05:5D:F8:8D:68 > >> and 'iwlist scan' commands to see if your >> interface shows up, and if it is seeing any signals. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# iwlist wlan0 scan > wlan0 Scan completed : > Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:0E:5A:41:ED > ESSID:"06B411926284" > Mode:Master > Channel:6 > Frequency:2.437 GHz > Quality=174/146 Signal level=-239 dBm Noise level=-71 > dBm > Encryption key:on > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s > 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s > 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > Extra:tsf=000000122f23a1c2 > Cell 02 - Address: 00:12:0E:12:68:D5 > ESSID:"05B408826277" > Mode:Master > Channel:6 > Frequency:2.437 GHz > Quality=171/146 Signal level=-241 dBm Noise level=-71 > dBm > Encryption key:off > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s > 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s > 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > Extra:tsf=000000981721c122 > Cell 03 - Address: 00:0F:B5:FA:9C:54 > ESSID:"dd-wrt" > Mode:Master > Channel:1 > Frequency:2.412 GHz > Quality=213/146 Signal level=-216 dBm Noise level=-71 > dBm > Encryption key:off > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s > 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s > 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > Extra:tsf=000000010a2e4181 > Cell 04 - Address: 00:05:5D:F8:8D:68 > ESSID:"ICECAP4NIGHTCAP" > Mode:Master > Channel:7 > Frequency:2.442 GHz > Quality=210/146 Signal level=-218 dBm Noise level=-71 > dBm > Encryption key:on > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s > Extra:tsf=000000002e48723f > > Cell 04 is my wap11. And that mac address is correct. > > I've brought the wap11 back to life with a powerdown reset. And I've used > the > linux version of wap11gui to refresh the keys in the wap11. > > I copied the old /etc/dir to a usb drive before I installed, and just went > and > got the KEYS-wlan0 file from there and installed it, copied ufcfg-eth0 to > ifcfg-wlan0 and modified it to set the channel, ESSID, mac address, so it now > looks like this: > ======== > # broadcom bcm4318 radio > # > DEVICE=wlan0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > HWADDR=00:12:0E:12:68:D5 > ONBOOT=yes > #TYPE=Ethernet > TYPE=wireless > ESSID="ICECAP4NIGHTCAP" > CHANNEL="7" > ======== > > Then I copied ifup-wireless to ifup-wlan0, got brave and did an > "ifdown wlan0;ifup wlan0" > It fussed about the mac address not matching, but worked! I can now ping > yahoo with the cat5 unplugged. > > So, go fix the mac address, wash rinse repeat. When it works, it works > great, > but its dead for minutes at a time. Yes, but you are using your neighbor's AP (ESSID:"05B408826277"), which is not encrypted. You need to specify the encryption key, which will keep it from connecting to the neighbor's unit. Channel 7 is not a good choice for your AP, given the 2 neighboring AP's that use channel 6. The spectrum is more than +/- 2 channels away from the center; therefore the only non-interference is when channels 1, 6 and 11 are used. BTW, a patch was posted yesterday that will fix the quality and signal level numbers in iwscan and iwconfig. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
