Tatoku Ogaito wrote:
> Hi. 
> 
>>> In Message <44466BD8.6010103@errno.com>
>  at Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:56:56 -0700
>  Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> wrote:
> 
>  > Channels are marked passive according to local regulatory constraints. 
>  > When scanning you're not supposed to send a probe req on a channel setup 
>  > this way unless you know it's being used for 802.11 communication.  The 
>  > code currently in cvs will listen on such channels but when the ap is 
>  > not broadcasting it's ssid this is insufficient.
>  > 
>  > So was the ap setup on a channel marked for passive scan only?  In 
>  > freebsd you can tell by doing
>  > 
>  > ifconfig ath0 list chan
>  > 
>  > and channels marked passive have a '*'.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately the ifconfig bundled with NetBSD does not support
> "list command".
> 
> [tamp]/tmp% /sbin/ifconfig ath0 list chan
> ifconfig: list: bad value
> 
> So I stole list_channels function (and required function) from FreeBSD's
> ifconfig, and I got the following results.
> 
> [tamp]/usr/current/src/sbin/ifconfig# ./ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> Channel   1 : 2412* Mhz 11g          Channel  10 : 2457* Mhz 11g          
> Channel   2 : 2417* Mhz 11g          Channel  11 : 2462* Mhz 11g          
> Channel   3 : 2422* Mhz 11g          Channel  12 : 2467* Mhz 11g          
> Channel   4 : 2427* Mhz 11g          Channel  13 : 2472* Mhz 11g          
> Channel   5 : 2432* Mhz 11g          Channel  14 : 2484* Mhz 11b          
> Channel   6 : 2437* Mhz 11g          Channel  34 : 5170* Mhz 11a          
> Channel   7 : 2442* Mhz 11g          Channel  38 : 5190* Mhz 11a          
> Channel   8 : 2447* Mhz 11g          Channel  42 : 5210* Mhz 11a          
> Channel   9 : 2452* Mhz 11g          Channel  46 : 5230* Mhz 11a          
> ....
> 
> 
> What shall/can I do next ?

I have changes in freebsd to dtrt.  I started to import them yesterday 
but netbsd locked up on my dell 600m when I brought up an ath interface 
so I set it aside.  This is a GENERIC_LAPTOP kernel from cvs of 
yesterday morning w/o any mods fwiw.

	Sam