Re: [Madwifi-users] Not associating with lots of AP's in sight?

[Null P. <nul...@ro...>]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 09:28, Daniel Dorau wrote:
> Hello,
> yesterday I experienced a problem with madwifi-ng. On top of
> a building where I could see about 25 access points, several
> of them without WEP, I was not able to associate to any of
> them.
> I could see them with iwlist ath0 scan but even with essid
> "any" it didn't associate to one of them.
> With iwconfig I could watch the driver jump through the
> channels when I thought it should associate.
> Back at home, I have no problems to associate to an AP with
> "any" settings. Only difference I can think of right now is
> that at home I don't see as much AP's as on the top of that
> building. Version I'm using is 1362 with 5212 (that IBM
> a/b/g card).
>
> Any ideas?

If the APs had MAC filtering enabled, you would not be able to 
associate with them, which is as it should be.

N.P.