From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O3cf2-0003Xw-3J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:08:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C453E0E30 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD422E09BD for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:28:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg30 with SMTP id 30so88375wwg.40 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:28:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=+Ym9V8OiiKz2x9by9yblwDXz52hunQeITE8JiSzZxOE=; b=u3ViWmBFTQ4XpHRKeQupyTUkss/Y1fl4e3H/WoomgT6TWsS7A+X6SeGavN4+mINeUF 6SvC5/XnoFNo8dLFWTiIoZzyaIuvbskjuhohPA1Kxa7HtBXmwrJJkejYS/wYOuW7ncd4 bFWyVu5J0jMqg2+Od1KF+eo4jydlxPMTc2m78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mXxfTzGeYhfEjnf43Un/9uYtPGIlHA71B8u1zurXbp9DXdOlgjNgKqap4RGNNu4O85 8c1uT9yf1shQ4hiY5a8smmEnv0RsxD/6H+jHE5lRYvwTzJznl6UipgEiqi0ZsQjurR9P BFyLH+TlMgoNJrmfQwXX6RXy70Fi7Sv3OYSt8= Received: by 10.216.89.74 with SMTP id b52mr2756036wef.142.1271626092102; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:28:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t27sm1091493wbc.17.2010.04.18.14.28.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:28:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Where's my wireless AP? Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:28:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1858150.gzUignpE2I"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004182228.10580.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8920fa32-d768-4306-aff1-e2425b73197d X-Archives-Hash: 5facbf6b688f14910af72d1af395febb --nextPart1858150.gzUignpE2I Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Last night I was connected wirelessly to my access point and all worked fin= e.=20 Well, towards the end the connection was bobbing up and down as far as my=20 unreliable broadcom NIC is concerned (nothing wrong with the router). I=20 decided to shut it down and go to bed. Today the AP is just not there! Not there as far as this stupid broadcom=20 wireless NIC is concerned. The same machine booted into MSWindows has no=20 problem seeing the AP and associating with it. Another laptop can also see= =20 the AP and connect to it. How come the broadcom cannot see it in Gentoo, but it can see all the=20 neighbours APs which have a much weaker signal and even associate and get a= n=20 IP address from one of them?! I am lost as to what might be causing this. Could it be some lock file that was not removed when the machine is reboote= d=20 or the wlan0 interface taken down? Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1858150.gzUignpE2I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkvLeWoACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaVRgCgrr9vKKZXLrvAdKOggXjj8QvI H10An1hx0QwQcCYFVdHP/fYFqruPmwAP =JGGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1858150.gzUignpE2I--