On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 16:47 +0900, Aaron Gutman wrote: > I have followed the guides for setting up WiMAX userland dependencies, > and am running 2.6.35 kernel (Ubuntu 10.10). > The notebooke has a 5150 wimax chipset. > > I get the following output when attempting to connect: > > # wimaxcu connect network 20 > In Manual Scan and Manual Connect Mode > Trying to find the networks ... > Scanning 80% Done ======- > Network found. > NSP : UQ WiMAX > ID : 20 > Signal : Fair > RSSI : -85 dBm > CINR : 3 dB > Network Type: Home Network > Activated. > > Scanning operation completed. > Connecting to UQ WiMAX Network... > Connection failure > > I've put the logs here: > http://www.lotek.org/~disco/wimax_logs.tar.gz > What I am seeing about this logs is that most found channels are reporting a really bad link quality: $ grep @Ch wimaxd.log 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 1. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000000000000004000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 10 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 2. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 010000000000000000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 10 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 3. Frequency: 2600000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000200000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 8 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 1. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000000000000004000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 2. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 010000000000000000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 3. Frequency: 2600000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000200000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 7 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 1. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000000000000004000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 2. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 010000000000000000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 3. Frequency: 2600000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000200000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 7 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:05: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 1. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000000000000004000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd .... 16:26:43: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 5. Frequency: 2600000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000200000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 8 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:44: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 1. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 010000000000000000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:44: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 2. Frequency: 2620000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 010000000000000000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:44: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 3. Frequency: 2610000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000000000000004000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:44: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 4. Frequency: 2620000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 100000000000000000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 9 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd 16:26:44: 3069401968 @Notice @NDNS_Agent @Ch 5. Frequency: 2600000, LinkQuality : 0, Preambles: 000000000000200000000000000000, Origin: Scan results, TTL: 8 [L4db_PrintDiscoveredNAPsList] @NDnSAgent_DB.c (2956) @wimaxd thus is not really surprising it fails to connect. -85 dBm in any case is so borderline it fails most of the times. I'd really like this software to be more conservative. Have you tried this in another location?
