Re: WiFi interface - scanning ssid

It is up

in my script, I do the following:
ifconfig $itf down
ifconfig $itf delete
ifconfig $itf up scan &
var=$!
#some loop waiting ifconfig to stop, or killing it after 30 seconds
eval `ifconfig -v $itf list scan | sed 's/ome/reg/expr' | awk '{toto}'`

Samuel Martín Moro
CamTrace
{EPITECH.} tek4

| "Nobody wants to say how this works. |
| Maybe nobody knows ..." |
| Xorg.conf(5) |


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/23/09, Samuel Martín Moro <faust64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
that may help:

my uname:
FreeBSD devel.axis.fr 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 14
15:26:50 CEST 2009 root@xxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
i386

in rc.conf:
hostapd/dhcpd/ifconfig_rum0 are commented

wlan_xauth is loaded

~# ifconfig rum0 down
~# ifconfig rum0 delete
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address
~# ifconfig rum0 destroy
ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument
~# ifconfig rum0
rum0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu
1500
ether 00:18:1a:0c:65:2f
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
status: no carrier
ssid 1921680452 channel 2 (2417 Mhz 11g)
authmode AUTO privacy OFF txpower 50 scanvalid 60 bgscan
bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5
protmode CTS dtimperiod 1

before, my card was listed by pciconf (but isn't anymore), as noneX
now, I can view it using usbdevs:
[...]
port 4 addr 2: high speed, power 300 mA, config 1, 802.11 bg
WLAN(0x2573),
Ralink(0x148f), rev 0.01
[...]

I used to test WIFI with two different chipset.
I generated the first driver using ndisgen, and compiled back the kernel
(adding some lines into headers) to deal with the second one.
I don't remember which one I use here. But my problem might come from a
bad
driver. (but most likely: PEBKAC)



Thanks for your help


Samuel Martín Moro
CamTrace
{EPITECH.} tek4

| "Nobody wants to say how this works. |
| Maybe nobody knows ..." |
| Xorg.conf(5) |


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Samuel Martín Moro
<faust64@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:


Hi

I'm trying to list ssid neighborhood.
doing ifconfig rum0 scan or ifconfig rum0 list scan, there isn't any
returned row.

it perfectly works a few days ago, when I was working on a script to
configure WIFI interfaces as client.
more recently, I tried to do a script to configure WIFI interfaces as
access points. since that, all my scan/list scan are empty.

by the way, while testing, I wasn't able to reset interface
configuration
(and maybe it's my list/scan) problem.
I tried with delete, ... It still keeps the old conf, when I'ld like to
drop it. How should I do ?

Thanks!


Samuel Martín Moro
CamTrace
{EPITECH.} tek4

| "Nobody wants to say how this works. |
| Maybe nobody knows ..." |
| Xorg.conf(5) |


You need to bring interface up, before scanning.

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