Hi freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, I'd appreciate suggestions, eg more URLs to read, & wlan ports/ to build etc:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html has some capabilities not documented: What is 'B' ? in a friend's (microsoft configured) net EPSB ; E,P,S are documented in URL above, but not B ? I tried cd /sys ; find . -type f -exec grep "'B'" {} /dev/null \; but noticed nothing. WPS is not defined in URL above, should be added, found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup What is ATH ? Unlikely something to do with Atheros ? (though I'm not using that I believe with run & urwtn interfaces). What is HTCAP ? find & grep found /sys/dev/pci/pcireg.h HT (HyperTransport) Capability Doesn't seem likely .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTransport /sys/net80211/ieee80211_* I Noticed man wpa_supplicant.conf does not document these generated by wpa_gui id_str="whatever" # Maybe a comment ? Trying 2 the same disabled=1 # Leave net disabled but documented ? I've got attach entries in /usr/local/etc/devd/jhs.conf, eg action "ifconfig wlan$interface create wlandev $device-name; \ ifconfig wlan$interface up; \ wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan$interface \ -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf \ -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.pid ; \ service netif start;\ dhclient wlan$interface"; I got run0: & urwtn0: interfaces alternately configured on FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 (after make world from stable from svn export), (I'm testing with run0 as I & 1 other on mobile@freebsd suspect urtwn drops out (overheats?) sometimes). Once I got on line via WLAN (at a Starbucks (BTOpenzone) coffee shop, no password, but uses a browser to click Accept), (after I set /etc/rc.conf firewall_type="open", as firewall_type="client" blocked connection or authorisation, OK I'll write some ipfw rules later when I trace what to pass, after connection is reliable) I even managed to help a NetBSD Wlan user (at a large site, to select for bssid for max signal (= smallest (nor largest :-) S of S:N), But still I'm mostly failing to connect other places eg CoffeeFellows (thecloud.eu Sky Murdoch), ports/net/wpa_gui I send-pr'd to patch for a lib, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=184473 wpa_gui now can save entries in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, as syntax & options examples against local nets, (If I supply dummy passwords :-) & If I add 'update_config=1' also not documented in man 5 wpa_supplicant.conf ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr was problematic, my rc.conf notes: # - wifimgr wants root password, even if started as root # - ./work/wifimgr-1.10/src/wifimgr.c # find_wifi_if( complains: # No WiFi interface is configured in /etc/rc.conf # unless you have: # ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" # but it doesnt tell you it needs it. ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" # - wifimgr after clicking scan, sometimes kills wpa_supplicant # - I need to read code to see if it is just reading all rc.conf, # or respecting my if [ "X.$wlan_jhs" = "X.YES" ]; I've noticed reports about double dhclient (or was it dhcpd?) starts on 10.0-BETA, not noticed anything myself ? I would appreciate more complete docs (if those who know, can fill in holes) & more URLs to read re connecting, & more ports tools reccomendations. (I am cautious re security settings, wanting to make connection both more predictably & succesfuly, + secure). Comments/suggestions welcome, (I am subscribed to wirel...@freebsd.org). 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. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative. Slash NSA budget. http://berklix.eu/jhs/blog/2013_10_30 _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"