Re: ath cannot find my wireless network any more

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:28:03PM +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 1/29/09, Lars Engels <lme_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:16:44PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
> >> Lars Engels wrote:
> >> >On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:28:30AM -0800, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:22:41PM +0100, Lars Engels wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>Hi all,
> >> >>>hi Sam,
> >> >>>
> >> >>>I just build world && kernel from todays sources.
> >> >>>Now my Atheros 5212 pccard cannot find my wireless network any more,
> >> >>> but
> >> >>>still sees other networks:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>lars_at_pts/3 # ifconfig wlan0 up scan
> >> >>>SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> >> >>>Arcor-C6DE58    00:1a:2a:c6:de:56    9   54M -95:-96  100 EPS  RSN WPA
> >> >>> WME
> >> >>>WLAN-AFCB47     00:1d:19:af:cb:e0    1   54M -96:-96  100 EPS  WPS RSN
> >> >>> WPA WME
> >> >>>0x0000          00:03:c9:54:18:bb    8   54M -94:-96  100 EP   WPA
> >> >>>
> >> >>>In contrast to this, the internal wpi chip still finds and connects to
> >> >>> the network:
> >> >>>lars_at_pts/3 # ifconfig wlan1 scan
> >> >>>SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> >> >>>dd-wrt          00:18:39:c7:6a:dd    6   54M  22:0    100 EP   RSN WME
> >> >>>
> >> >>>I also don't know why wpi only finds my own network.
> 
> If such behavior was from start(not regression) it can means only wpi
> problem/feature.

I can't tell because I haven't used wpi for months... But now I am glad
that it can still connect to my wireless network. :)

> > So I ran
> > # wlandebug -i wlan0 scan
> > net.wlan.0.debug: 0x0 => 0x200000<scan>
> >
> > But nothing new then:
> 
> Interesting output is not available from ifconfig it is printed by
> kernel on console.

Ahhh, thanks for the hint. There's a lot of scanning going on in
/var/log/messages but no sign of my own network.