Have you run at least `ifconfig ath0 up' before `wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c conf'?
That turned out to be a very good question! I didnt realise you had to do that before running the supplicant....and tat got me further. Now, it runs its startup checks but starts looping never finding a "suitable AP", and the messages that repeat are as follows: Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID) Received 0 bytes of scan results (0 BSSes) Scan results: 0 Selecting BSS from priority group 0 No suitable AP found Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec and then a message from the kernel always comes up: ath0: device timeout I think I should mention that the network is WPA2-PSK encrypted, but under FreeBSD 6 I dont remember doing any particularly different. ISTR the supplicant taking the settings and doing the right thing with them. I also cloak the SSID, hence the scan_ssid=1. Would it be worth lowering the security level on my AP to see if that helps? Apologies for the stupidity the first time around, Alex J Burke.
