Re: atheros card and wpa_supplicant

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/30/06, Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Have you run at least `ifconfig ath0 up' before `wpa_supplicant -i
> > ath0 -c conf'?
> >
>
> That turned out to be a very good question! I didnt realise you had to
> do that before running the supplicant....and tat got me further.
>
> Now, it runs its startup checks but starts looping never finding a
> "suitable AP", and the messages that repeat are as follows:
>
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Received 0 bytes of scan results (0 BSSes)
> Scan results: 0
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> No suitable AP found
> Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec
> and then a message from the kernel always comes up:
> ath0: device timeout
>
> I think I should mention that the network is WPA2-PSK encrypted, but
> under FreeBSD 6 I dont remember doing any particularly different. ISTR
> the supplicant taking the settings and doing the right thing with
> them.
>
> I also cloak the SSID, hence the scan_ssid=1.
>
> Would it be worth lowering the security level on my AP to see if that helps?

Please turn off "hiding ssid" on AP and give it a try again.

Best Regards,
sephe

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