On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Zhongliang Zhao <zhao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/26/2010 07:23 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Zhongliang Zhao<zhao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html