From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 9 16:33:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E605D16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:33:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from msgfe02.utad.utoledo.edu (msgfe02.utad.utoledo.edu [131.183.1.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A87B43D49 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:33:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rafege@mail.com) Received: from lmrmac.uhw.utoledo.edu ([131.183.85.137]) by msgfe02.utad.utoledo.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:33:45 -0500 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:33:41 -0500 From: rafege@mail.com (Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.) Organization: Rouillard & Rafe To: danny@cs.huji.ac.il Message-ID: <41E15CE5.nailMIJ11ROVI@mail.com> References: <20050109074624.362C35B41D@spf0.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20050109074624.362C35B41D@spf0.us4.outblaze.com> User-Agent: nail 11.3 8/18/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jan 2005 16:33:45.0433 (UTC) FILETIME=[FCF78C90:01C4F668] cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More WiFi Access Point Discovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rafege@mail.com List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:33:46 -0000 Danny Braniss wrote: !try ifconfig wi0 up Yes, that's the "magic" ! Following "ifconfig wi0 up", "wicontrol -i wi0 -l" reports our local access point directly: 1 station: ap[0]: netname (SSID): [ XXXXXX ] BSSID: [ 00:05:5d:XX:XX:XX ] Channel: [ XX ] Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]: [ 42 / 100 / 58 ] [dBm]: [ 42 / -49 / -91 ] BSS Beacon Interval [msec]: [ 90 ] Capinfo: [ ESS WEP ] And "dstumbler wi0 -s" appears to work well now, too. Many thanks for setting me on the right path here ! -- Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D. Please do not send me HTML-encoded mail. It will be discarded automatically.