Hello, Another thing I'm noticing is that you don't have your encryption key set. (You are using encryption, right??....right???? :D ) iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXX I've noticed that sometimes the essid _has_ to be the first thing set, otherwise iwconfig wouldn't accept the change there. There is a program kwifimanager that allows you to set this stuff up, but I haven't played with it very much. Keep us posted on your progress. Mike Sacco -----Original Message----- From: Jake Sallee [mailto:spark@breathedeeply.com] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 1:07 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] unconfigurable iwconfig On Friday 08 October 2004 11:42, Nick Davies wrote:
First post, apologies to all if I get the etiquette wrong.
A relative n00b to the world of linux, I am running SuSE 9.1 and attempting to climb the himalayas. Sorry, I meant get my wireless adaptor to connect to the network. Two weeks in the ndiswrapper foothills, I find myself at a dead end. In a nutshell, no matter what I do, (iwconfig, YAST, editing the ifcfg-wlan0 file directly), ssid cannot be set. (See iwconfig below). Please help, I'm not sure I can take any more of this.
have you tried iwconfig wlan0 mode managed? If it's an access point you'll want to set that to managed. if you want to set that in ifcfg-wlan0 it will look like: WIRELESS_MODE="Managed" Can you paste your ifcfg-wlan0???? I'd like to see it. It looks to me like you're not even getting the MAC address of the AP, so it's not connecting.
dmesg, ifconfig and iwconfig as follows.
dmesg ndiswrapper: unsupported module, tainting kernel. ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded ndiswrapper adding rtl8180.sys wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:50:fc:bd:fb:62 using driver rtl8180.sys wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
ifconfig wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:FC:BD:FB:62 inet6 addr: fe80::250:fcff:febd:fb62/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:16980 (16.5 Kb) Interrupt:11 Memory:ee000000-ee0000ff
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"HOME" Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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