How detecting the Wifi area my iwi0 is in?

[Dennis Melentyev]

Hello Mattias,

Have you tried wpa_supplicant for this? It can perfectly autodetect
networks for me (office/home). With iwi driver on 7.0-CURRENT-200706
snapshot (HP/Compaq nc8230).

2007/7/16, Matthias Apitz <m.apitz at oclcpica.org>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm travelling a lot around with my FreeBSD 6.2 laptop and have
> all kind of WLAN environments in the different offices and another
> one at home as well. At the moment I'm using a small shell script
> which must be run as root after boot to set the correct Wifi
> context (WPA or WEP, keys, IP addrs), as well routing, DNS and
> other stuff (DHCP is not present always). That's why I was thinking
> in doing that automagically on the fly with a better script and based on
> the SSID of the different AP. But I can't see a stable and reliable
> way to figure out the SSID with ifconfig. I've just tried in my
> office after a fresh re-boot:
>
> # ifconfig iwi0
> iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ether 00:13:ce:a1:e6:81
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid "" channel 1
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 bmiss 10 protmode CTS
> # ifconfig iwi0 scan chanlist 1-20
>
> 'ifconfig' returned immediately and does not show any AP
>
> # ifconfig iwi0 list ap
>
> no AP shown
>
> # ifconfig iwi0 up
> # ifconfig iwi0 scan chanlist 1-20
> # ifconfig iwi0 list ap
> SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE  S:N   INT CAPS
> NETGEAR         00:18:4d:65:61:12    6   54M 42:0   100 EP   WPA
> XXXXXXXXXXXXX   xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx    9   54M 53:0   100 EP   xxxxxx
>
> now my AP XXXXXXXXXXXXX appeared.
>
> But sometimes even a 'ifconfig iwi0 up' does not help. So, what
> is the correct way of getting the list of AP after a fresh boot?
>
> Another question: I could grep from the attic an older laptop
> (Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook C1020) and will install CURRENT
> on it for testing some stuff. The laptop has not Wifi on board.
> Are there any PCMCIA based Wifi cards working with FreeBSD?
>
> Thx
>
>         matthias
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Dennis Melentyev