From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 20:59:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7EA9A574 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wilson.telenet-ops.be (wilson.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1096C3D03 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:59:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from albert.telenet-ops.be (albert.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.90]) by wilson.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C86B35375 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 22:59:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.95] ([141.134.88.3]) by albert.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id iLyx1o00B04KsaM06Lyxdp; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 22:58:58 +0200 Message-ID: <53F9009F.2020603@telenet.be> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 22:59:11 +0200 From: Chris Van Steenlandt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour References: <201408231238.s7NCc8ME057766@fire.js.berklix.net> <53F8F086.1070207@telenet.be> <53F8F605.80006@telenet.be> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:59:07 -0000 Adrian, - ifconfig step (creation of pseudo device) completed successfully - wpa_supplicant gives the following type of output (I can't paste it here, but I'll describe the structure of the output) : 1st message : Initialization successfull Then the following blocks of messages (they alternate or repeat) Block 1 : Trying to associate with (SSID='myssid' freq=5180 Mhz) wlan0 : Authentication with timed out. wlan0 : CTRL_EVENT_DISCONNECTED bssid = reason=3 locally_generated=1 ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0, arg_len=7] : Can't assign requested adress Block 2 : Trying to associate with (SSID='myssid' freq=2412 Mhz) wlan0 : Associated with wlan0 : WPA: Key negotiation completed with [PTK=CMP GTK=TKIP] wlan0 : CTRL_EVENT_CONNECTED - Connection to completed [id=0 id_str=] Block 2 is sometines followed by : wlan0 : CTRL_EVENT_DISCONNECTED bssid = reason=0 and then followed by block 1 For as far as I understand, the driver switches between the 2.4 GHz and 5 Ghz band of my wireless network. Indeed my wifi router is configured to support both bands but apparently my wifi driver can only handle the 2.4Ghz one. On 23-08-14 22:19, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Ok. > > Just try it manually - > > * comment out stuff from /etc/rc.conf and reboot > * ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 -bgscan > * wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf & > * ifconfig wlan0 list scan - you haven't pasted that here, so we have > no idea what APs it is seeing > > then see. > > If you compiled in IEEE80211_DEBUG in your kernel config, then > 'wlandebug +scan' and see what is spat out to the kernel config.