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Title: Wifi Oddness
Post by: cortneyh on January 04, 2005, 08:56:55 pm

Good evening,

I am having an issue with connecting to the free wifi at my favorite sandwich shop (Panera).  I have successfully connected once using ssid of PANERA (from kismet output) and once using the any option. I had a look at the dmesg after failing to connect.  Here it is below -

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init_module: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.0 Loaded
init_module: dev_info is: prism2_usb
usb.c: registered new driver prism2_usb
ident: nic h/w: id=0x8026 1.0.0
ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 1.1.3
ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.7.4
MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=1/4
STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/12
PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Prism2 card SN: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped.
p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped.
p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped.
p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped.

Is there something flaky with my card or flaky with the bakery (or the user).

Thanks
Cortney

P.S.  I have a 6000L with the stock ROM

Title: Wifi Oddness
Post by: cvmiller on January 06, 2005, 08:23:32 pm

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Good evening,

I am having an issue with connecting to the free wifi at my favorite sandwich shop (Panera).  
Is there something flaky with my card or flaky with the bakery (or the user).

P.S.  I have a 6000L with the stock ROM

Never looked at dmesg before (in this context). Interesting stuff about the connection. Here's mine:

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hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 48
ident: nic h/w: id=0x8026 1.0.0
ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 1.1.3
ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.7.4
MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=1/4
STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/12
PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Prism2 card SN: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped.
linkstatus=CONNECTED
So yours doesn't look at that odd, other than it doesn't connect.

I hope this helps,

Craig...

I am also using a SL-6000 with stock ROM.

Title: Wifi Oddness
Post by: alge on January 09, 2005, 06:56:58 pm

I have the same trouble with my linksys wrt54g AP at home. I think it is due to interacion with other networks nearby ..... For me it helps when I execute the following script as root before connecting:

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#!/bin/sh
usbctl on 1
sleep 2
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
# following stuff on single line
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_scan bsstype=any bssid=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ssid="" scantype=both channellist="01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:00:00:00" minchanneltime=200 maxchanneltime=250
albrecht

Title: Wifi Oddness
Post by: cortneyh on January 11, 2005, 02:54:07 pm

Hi,

I tried my old linksys card and got another odd message...I didn't save it, but the last message said it was connected, but it wasn't.....   Next time I'm over there, I'll post the output.

Using kismet, I didn't detect any other networks, but I'll give that a try.  Couldn't hurt.

Thanks,
Cortney