Where do I get the network id needed by kwifi-manager?

Pcghost · 11-21-2003, 11:33 PM

As stated I cannot figure out what the Network Id field is in kwifi-manager. I understand the SSID (network name) and Channel settings common to wifi NICs, but I have never seen that before. Where do I find my network id?

Pcghost · 11-22-2003, 10:36 PM

Bump! Has no one set up their wireless card in KDE? Someone has to know...

2Gnu · 11-22-2003, 11:50 PM

"nwid : network id or domain, to distinguish different logical networks"
Linux Wireless Extensions

Pcghost · 11-23-2003, 02:13 AM

Thanks 2Gnu, but how do I determine what Network Id is used by my network?

2Gnu · 11-23-2003, 10:05 AM

As you probably know, KWiFiManger simply reports the information being handled by wireless tools. As I read the definition for iwconfig nwid, unless you're setting up separate domains or logical WLANs, you won't use that parameter. From man iwconfig:
" nwid/domain
Set the Network ID (in some products it is also called Domain
ID). As all adjacent wireless networks share the same medium,
this parameter is used to differenciate them (create logical
colocated networks) and identify nodes belonguing to the same
cell. With some card, you may disable the Network ID checking
(NWID promiscuous) with off (and on to reenable it).
Examples :
iwconfig eth0 nwid AB34
iwconfig eth0 nwid off"

Pcghost · 11-23-2003, 02:43 PM

Cool. That rules that out. I cannot seem to connect to my home network though. SuSE identifies my network card correctly as a Netgear MA 701, and with all the settings correctly set (I assume) it still reports no network (wifi). The problem is not on the routers end as my wife is connecting fine in XP. I noticed there is a place for encrytion key in the network setup tab of YaST and I filled that in with my WEP key, but there is also a place for cryptography keys in kwifi-manager. Is the crypto setting related to WEP or is it different?

2Gnu · 11-24-2003, 06:38 PM

I enter the WEP key in the file itself, depending on the distro.
In RH, it's /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and the syntax is KEY=abcde12345...
In Slackware, it's in the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file and looks like: KEY=abcd:e123:4567: ...
I don't know SuSE that well, but it's very similar to RH. If using the wlan_ng driver, the file and syntax are different.

I've not used KWiFi for managing WEP keys. There's some info in the docs, but not much - on my system, it's /usr/local/kde/share/doc/HTML/en/kwifimanager/index.docbook Make sure KWiFi is finding your interface correctly.

Not sure that was very much help, but it's what I think I know.

Pcghost · 11-24-2003, 06:49 PM

It's a start. Thanks for the help. I will figure this out yet. :-)