Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-12 Thread Bob Crandell
Mine is the same as your's. Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > larry price wrote: > > > > Anyone know what a BSSID is? That's what kismet reports, and > > > I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC. But is it? > > > > > BSSID : Basic Service Set Identifier > > It looks like a MAC.

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-12 Thread Linux Rocks!
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 09:25 am, Bob Miller wrote: : larry price wrote: : > > Anyone know what a BSSID is? That's what kismet reports, and : > > I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC. But is it? : > : > BSSID : Basic Service Set Identifier : : It looks like a MAC. Our home networ

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-12 Thread Bob Miller
larry price wrote: > > Anyone know what a BSSID is? That's what kismet reports, and > > I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC. But is it? > > > BSSID : Basic Service Set Identifier It looks like a MAC. Our home network has a BSSID of 00:0C:41:66:81:A8, which is the MAC stamped on th

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Crandell
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:00:49 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know what a BSSID is? That's what kismet reports, and > > I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC. But is it? > > > > Anyway, I used ifconfig, iwconfig (frustratingly), and kismet. What > > else shou

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread larry price
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:00:49 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know what a BSSID is? That's what kismet reports, and > I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC. But is it? > BSSID : Basic Service Set Identifier > Anyway, I used ifconfig, iwconfig (frustratingly), and

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Tim
> Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a wireless problem? > > Was the AP made by D-Link (they have a proprietary speedup, that > degrades for uncapable windows machines but not for the rest of the > world)? I am using a D-link AP at home and it works fine on all my systems. ___

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Miller
Michael H. Collins wrote: > do you do "dhcpcd eth1" or whatever your wireless device thinks it is? Yes. Ethereal showed DHCP discover packets going out, but no replies coming back. Unless I set them, iwconfig showed no ESSID, zero access point, and the wrong frequency. There was an issue wher

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Michael H. Collins
do you do "dhcpcd eth1" or whatever your wireless device thinks it is? Bob Miller wrote: Lots of you are using WiFi with Linux. I am too, in certain locations. (home and The Strand, to name two.) But when it doesn't work, I have zero clue how to diagnose what's wrong. This weekend, I was at a h

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Miller
larry price wrote: > Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a wireless problem? I don't think so. At one point, I did assign a static IP address, and I still couldn't talk to anybody. > Was the AP made by D-Link (they have a proprietary speedup, that > degrades for uncapable windows mach

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Jason
--- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a > wireless problem? Good point Larry. I've had these types of issues before. More than once they've been solved by manually assigning an IP vs. waiting for one (sniff for a bit to see the net in use, typ

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-10 Thread larry price
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:51:18 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lots of you are using WiFi with Linux. I am too, in certain > locations. (home and The Strand, to name two.) But when it doesn't > work, I have zero clue how to diagnose what's wrong. > > This weekend, I was at a hotel

[Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Miller
Lots of you are using WiFi with Linux. I am too, in certain locations. (home and The Strand, to name two.) But when it doesn't work, I have zero clue how to diagnose what's wrong. This weekend, I was at a hotel with an open access WiFi network. All of the Windows users I was with connected to