Can't Change ESSID

123456 · 02-27-2005, 11:17 AM

I've been trying to get internet on my computer running mandrake, but I can't change the essid for wlan0 no matter what I do. When I scan for AP's I get two or three in the houses down the street, but they're too far to connect through.

What ever I enter the essid from iwconfig wlan0 is always Off/any.

darkleaf · 02-27-2005, 01:55 PM

Are you using the latest version of ndiswrapper. Have you tried setting it and just connecting to your own network then ("dhcpcd wlan0" for example if you use dhcp). It sometimes doesn't show for me either but it is on then. If that doesn't work do you use the latest version of wireless-tools and ndiswrapper.

akoebbe · 03-01-2005, 10:13 AM

I have to second this question. I've got the same problem.

I'm running Fedora Core 2 on an asus pundit with a WG511 "China" card in the PCMCIA slot. I've got ndiswrapper going and the latest netgear drivers (as of this evening). I've disabled the prism54 driver and seems like ndiswrapper is loading.

This is logged when I plug the card in:

Code:

PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using irq 11
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0f:b5:28:b0:76 using driver netwg511
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

When I plug the card one of the led light's up and starts flashing then goes off for the rest of time. (I'm not sure if this is normal) 'iwlist wlan0 scan' gives me a list of 4 or 5 APs, but when I try to set the ESSID with iwconfig nothing changes I keep seeing:

Code:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management max timeout:0us  mode:All packets received
          Link Quality:100  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:620   Missed beacon:0

I'm not sure if these things are related, but I could really use some help.

Thank.

--Andrew

123456 · 03-03-2005, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by darkleaf
Are you using the latest version of ndiswrapper. Have you tried setting it and just connecting to your own network then ("dhcpcd wlan0" for example if you use dhcp). It sometimes doesn't show for me either but it is on then. If that doesn't work do you use the latest version of wireless-tools and ndiswrapper.

I'm running mandrake linux 10.0, with and wusb54g network adapter and the wrt54g router.
I can't find my network with the scan, but I'm just assuming it's the default linksys.

Yea, I'm pretty sure I'm using the latest version, up until this point everything with the setup has gone fine. I can't change or connect to anything. Pinging has worked before a while ago, but then after trying to the next day it said it couldn't connect to network and has been the same since.

I'm might end up just tryin to reinstall it with the latest ndiswrapper.

I can get the latest version with as the tar.gz version, right?

darkleaf · 03-04-2005, 08:29 AM

Yes use the .tar.gz file to get the newest.