On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Andy Pyles wrote:
> first I don't have a wi0 device, so I'm assuming you meant s/wi0/ath0/

Yes.

> second, I don't have a wireless router handy at the moment, but I just 
> assigned  an ip to my interface and tried a ping.
> 
> in both cases the output is: 
> 0 packets received by filter
> 0 packets dropped by kernel

Since you are not associated with an AP, this is about what I would
expect. It is strange that you do not see any Probe Requests, but
the interface might be in passive scan mode. You did use the tcpdump
command-line arguments I suggested, right?

> so do I need to compile in wi support?

No.

Dave

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