Humm. First I was going to suggest that your signal at the AP point was below the receive threshold of the AP. I've seen this before where I can sniff packets but cannot associate because my transmitted data is not ever received at the AP side. A broken receive pre-amp in the amp could cause this.
However I've also seen this exact same problem when the SSID is specified (and usually wrong) in FBSD. Simply removing the SSID and setting it to a blank field fixed the problem because the AP beaconed it's SSID. Just some advice to try out. I'd start with the SSID field and move on to the amps next. If this fails I'd be suspicious of the AP. I'm curious to find out what this is so keep us posted. Dan. On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:10:44PM -0700, Mike Avery wrote: > Somebody told me that hell is where everything > connects, but nothing communicates. > > I have a wireless link to my ISP... or at least, I had one > until some recent rains pumped enough water into the > local trees that the link died. > > So, I installed a larger antenna. A 24db gain Andrews > antenna. And now I am getting a nice signal according > to Netstumbler. > > However, I can no longer get my FreeBSD box to > associate with the access point at my ISP. Ditto for my > Windows laptop. > > The ISP has a Linksys WAP-11 with an amp on it and a > 8.5db omni antenna. > > Another client (right now there are two clients) has > another WAP-11 in access poing client mode. I set up > that client, and everything's great there. (Both WAP- > 11's are the original ones, both are running the 1.4i.1 > software.) > > I've looked at the network name, the security, the wep > key. It all seems to be set right. I've played with the > preamble. No joy. > > I've used both a Cabletron RoamAbout (the same as an > Orinoco Silver card), and a Cisco Aironet 340. > > In desperation, I moved all my gear into my ISP's > server room. I was close enough I could spit on his > internal antenna. Still no joy. Both of the NICs will > connect to my own AP (a D-Link 1000), so I think the > NICs are OK. > > If someone has any suggestions, I'd be delighted to > hear them. > > Thanks, > Mike > -- > Mike Avery > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 16241692 AOL IM:MAvery81230 > Phone: 970-642-0282 > * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other > way * > > A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: > Repeat after me..."RTFM...RTFM...RTFM..." > > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
