New trouble with wi(4) & AP discovery

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jan 9 22:59:38 PST 2005


In message: <20050110053349.GE709 at empiric.icir.org>
            Bruce M Simpson <bms at spc.org> writes:
: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:49:55PM -0500, Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D. wrote:
: > After a few minutes, the following dstumbler error message appeared:
: ...
: > [a TOSHIBA Wireless LAN Card, Lucent Firmware: Station (8.72.1)]
: ...
: 
: dstumbler doesn't work with the Orinoco/Lucent chips. Historically these
: chips have been much more opaque in terms of what one can do with them.

And firmware 8.72.1 definitely isn't the "oops" version of the
firmware that allows for scanning and the like.  You are SOL.

Warner


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