From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 16 00:10:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 7535716A41F for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:10:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: from mail.el.net (mail.el.net [68.165.89.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53D843D55 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:10:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: (qmail 64757 invoked by uid 1008); 16 Oct 2005 00:10:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.el.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.el.net with SMTP; 16 Oct 2005 00:10:15 -0000 Received: from 24.90.33.115 (SquirrelMail authenticated user kalin@el.net) by mail.el.net with HTTP; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:10:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49541.24.90.33.115.1129421415.squirrel@mail.el.net> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:10:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "kalin mintchev" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: finding access points X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:10:24 -0000 hi all... i have used my laptop with wireless networks in a lot of different places where i know all the information i need - ssid, wep key, etc... recently i've been traveling and have problems getting on wireless networks in hotels, airports etc... usually i'd see association with ip assigned - like 10.1.x.x but i can't can't go anywhere and can't see the access point pinging... apparently people using windows dont have that problem in those locations.. i tried dstumbler from the bsd-airtools to see if i can detect any ap but still nothing shows up.... any help appreciated... thanks............ --