Wireless: network detected, but no connection

[Ian Coetzee]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Frank Lorenz <mailinglists at lavabit.com> wrote:
<snip>
> wlan1     Scan completed :
>          Cell 01 - Address: 00:A0:C5:5D:36:CE
>                    ESSID:"OpenNetwork"
>                    Mode:Master
>                    Channel:9
>                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s
>                    Bit Rates:2 Mb/s
>                    Bit Rates:5.5 Mb/s
>                    Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
>                    Encryption key:off
>                    Quality=24/128  Signal level=-90 dBm  Noise
> level=-96 dBm
<snip>
> Nov  8 20:03:23 office wpa_supplicant[1491]: Association request to the
> driver failed
> Nov  8 20:03:28 office wpa_supplicant[1491]: Authentication with
> 00:a0:c5:5d:36:ce timed out.

Looking at the above extracts it would seem that the wireless signal
you are picking up is a bit low.

-90 is about the connection threshold for 2.4Ghz (it does depend on
the sensitivity of the reciever)

How close are you to the wireless AP

In windows, what does the signal strength look like at the same
location of those machines?

Regards
Ian