Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:34 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wireless ath - unable to get scan results Message-ID: <20100115150234.GF83945@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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This is my first wireless attempt. Please don't shoot
me for asking obvious questions.
This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT sparc64
I've TL-WN851N PCI wireless card.
I see in dmesg:
ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0x110000-0x11ffff at device 3.0 on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
and with pciconf -lv
ath0@pci0:0:3:0: class=0x028000 card=0x2091168c chip=0x0029168c rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
class = network
and with ifconfig
# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:27:19:e1:b7:d9
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
#
Does this look ok so far?
Following the manual I try to scan for available
networks, but get this message immediately, so
it doesn't look like it's searching for anything
# ifconfig ath0 scan
ifconfig: unable to get scan results
#
I've in kernel config file:
device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's
device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer)
device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 # enable AR5416 tx/rx descriptors
device wlan
device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support
device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support
device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support
and also this firewall line
options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK
but I've no /etc/ipf.rules yet
Perhaps it's my firewall that's blocking everything?
many thanks
anton
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