From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw0-f66.google.com ([74.125.83.66]:51946 "EHLO mail-gw0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751170Ab0G1SUs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:20:48 -0400 Received: by gwb11 with SMTP id 11so326399gwb.1 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:20:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C500460.5000505@iam.unibe.ch> References: <4C4D5560.2040201@iam.unibe.ch> <4C500460.5000505@iam.unibe.ch> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:30:21 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: iw dev wlan0 link - "Not connected" To: Zhongliang Zhao Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Zhongliang Zhao wrote: > On 07/26/2010 07:23 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Zhongliang Zhao >>  wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> When I use "iw dev wlan0 link" to get information on wlan0 (basically to >>> check the channel used on wlan0), >>> it says: " Not connected " >>> >>> Can someone tell me how to fix this? >>> >> >> Refer to: >> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Getting_link_status >> >> And then: >> >> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Establishing_a_basic_connection >> >> What you really want to use is: >> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/wpa_supplicant >> >>   Luis >> > > > Luis, thanks for the reply. But actually we're working on mesh nodes with > the iw-tool installed, so maybe we should use the "mesh" interface mode. In > this case, how to solve the problem? http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Creating_and_inspecting_Mesh_Point_interfaces_with_iw Note for ath9k you currently have to issue a scan to kick the card to beacon, its a bug, not dealt with yet. Luis