Can't connect to wireless network, can't set essid!

Shioni · 09-18-2006, 03:59 PM

Hi!
I'm using ndiswrapper for my Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller. After I load the ndiswrapper module, I get this:

Code:

ndiswrapper version 1.13 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100.46.0) loaded
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:0b.0
ndiswrapper: using irq 4
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:a4:58:86:e8 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4318:1468:0312.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK

So it looks like everything should work, but when I do:
iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
and:
iwconfig wlan0
I get:

Code:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management: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

ESSID is not changed. We have a wireless router that uses WPA2PSK encryption. I have no idea how to give iwconfig the key, but I can't even change the ESSID, so it doesn't matter now. Can anyone please give help me? Thank you!

Hangdog42 · 09-18-2006, 04:16 PM

Quote:

We have a wireless router that uses WPA2PSK encryption.

You're going to need to install wpa_supplicant, and that will also take care of the SSID (hopefully). If you're distro doesn't have a wpa_supplicant package, I've got compile and use instructions on my help site (link in my sig).

Shioni · 09-18-2006, 04:38 PM

Thanks! I can turn off encryption off! There was another wireless network, that has default settings and it's ESSID is MSHOME, but I can't connect to it eather. Maybe it's thats why, because the router doesn't send out it's ESSID!?

Hangdog42 · 09-18-2006, 04:53 PM

Well, you should be able to change the SSID no matter what. Are you root when you try to set the SSID? Also, have a look in your system logs and see if iwconfig complains about anything when you try to set an SSID.

Having a router broadcast it's SSID can help, but usually it helps with association, not with setting the SSID.

Shioni · 09-25-2006, 10:26 AM

Thanks! The problem was, if the AP with that name isn't in the radius, it doesn't change!