Re: [solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 10/8/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. >> I can now connect to the internet. >> >> I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the >> raw commands th

Re: [solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-08 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/8/10, Eitan Adler wrote: > Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. > I can now connect to the internet. > > I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the > raw commands though. So OPEN authmode is broken somehow? Send a problem rep

[solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. I can now connect to the internet. I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the raw commands though. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Paul B Ma

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >>> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: > Looks like you cant associate at all. > Also signal power is too low. > > Why is INT (beacon interval

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: Looks like you cant associate at all. Also signal power is too low. Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ? >>> >>> These are the defaults - I have no idea

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
Sorry for the reply-to-self On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: Looks like you cant associate at all. Also signal power is too low. Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ?

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> Looks like you cant associate at all. >>> Also signal power is too low. >>> >>> Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ? >> >> These are the defaults - I have no idea what these numbers mean. What >> should/c

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Looks like you cant associate at all. >> Also signal power is too low. >> >> Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ? > > These are the defaults - I have no idea what these numbers mean. What > should/could I be changing? I doubt that AP have capatibility to chan

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
> Looks like you cant associate at all. > Also signal power is too low. > > Why is INT (beacon interval of AP) 102 ? These are the defaults - I have no idea what these numbers mean. What should/could I be changing? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-question

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: > > ifconfig wlan0 scan results in no output and takes forever (ie - it > hangs) If you set wlan0 for manual roaming it will not hang. Use 'ifconfig w

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: ifconfig wlan0 scan results in no output and takes forever (ie - it hangs) >>> If you set wlan0 for manual roaming it will not hang. >>> >>> Use 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' instead. >> That worked,

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> >>> ifconfig wlan0 scan results in no output and takes forever (ie - it >>> hangs) >> If you set wlan0 for manual roaming it will not hang. >> >> Use 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' instead. > That worked, thanks. > > dhclient still results in no link being found. Ar

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
>> >> ifconfig wlan0 scan results in no output and takes forever (ie - it hangs) > If you set wlan0 for manual roaming it will not hang. > > Use 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' instead. That worked, thanks. dhclient still results in no link being found. > >> ifconfig wlan0 ssid my_ssid >> dhclient wla

Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-07 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/7/10, Eitan Adler wrote: > On a fresh 8.1-RELEASE install > > ifconfig wlan0 scan results in no output and takes forever (ie - it hangs) If you set wlan0 for manual roaming it will not hang. Use 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' instead. > ifconfig wlan0 ssid my_ssid > dhclient wlan0 > results in