Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:30 +1300, Paul Collins wrote: >> Robert Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I seem to be having a problem associating with my AP--everything >> > appears fine and I can bring my wireless adapter up (the LED lights up >> > correctly), and I don't see complaints about firmware/IRQs in the >> > dmesg output. I am able to see operating APs with an "iwlist wlan0 >> > scan", but I am unable to connect to the AP, with or without WEP >> > encryption enabled (tried none, hex and ascii; nothing worked). This >> > is with the latest wireless-dev pull and a vanilla 2.6.19 kernel with >> > "irqpoll" option enabled, otherwise it misbehaves. I would be happy >> > to give more information if requested, or try different >> > kernel/firmware options. >> >> I started playing with wireless-dev's bcm43xx-d80211 recently and >> noticed that I had to set the frequency manually. When I did that, >> setting the ap manually caused the card to associate immediately. > > That sounds suspiciously like the driver either doesn't have the correct > scan results to be able to pick the AP's frequency, or is not correctly > searching those scan results to find it... If the AP is in the scan > list, the driver should definitely be able to find & set the frequency > for the AP, _unless_ you've previously specified a non-zero frequency > for iwconfig ethX freq [1]. Do you see your AP in the 'iwlist wlan0 > scan' output?
Yes, this is how I noticed that iwconfig was reporting a different frequency to that listed in iwlist scan. >> Here's the sequence of commands I run. (The driver seems stable on my >> hardware, so I've only had to do this twice in the last week, and then >> only for reasons unrelated to the driver.) >> >> ip link set up wlan0 >> iwlist wlan0 scan >> iwconfig wlan0 essid $essid key $wep_key >> iwconfig wlan0 >> (note frequencies differ) >> iwconfig wlan0 freq $freq_from_iwlist_scan >> iwconfig wlan0 ap $ap_mac_address >> dhclient wlan0 -- Paul Collins Wellington, New Zealand Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
