BCM WiFi Problem
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Jul 17 00:26:18 UTC 2007
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>
>> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
>> Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
>> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
>> Encryption key:off
>> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
>> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> I don't set up as an expert,
> but I would have thought you needed to set the ESSID
> (to that of the target machine).
>
> Personally, I set it in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
>
> # Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> DEVICE=eth1
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> HWADDR=00:15:00:16:2a:ea
> IPADDR=192.168.2.4
> ESSID=dd-wrt
> KEY=<...>
>
> But you could set it with iwconfig, something like
>
> sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid <whatever>
>
He has it in hos ifcfg-wlan0. (ESSID=RoseMike) But I wonder if the
MODE=Auto instead of MODE=Managed is causing ESSID not to be set? If
not, then something is unsetting it... Time to read the network
configuration scripts again.
Mikkel
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