i have looked around the other forums a bit and did not find much that could explain what i am seeing.
i have a DLink 650 rev p pcmcia card on a fedora core 1 machine. the linux-wlan drivers are loaded (after much pain) and i can now get the card to connect to MY accesspoint, not any other one. there are a fiew other signals that i can connect to with WinXP. I have not even found a way to scan the other APs in Linux (thank god sony is so terrible and requires me to have win for my netmd).
first off, i have tried using prismstumbler. when loaded (rpm or src compiled) i get the following error on start up:
[root@local pcmcia]# pst
Can't connect to localhost.2947: Connection refused
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
Can't open pcap device: Function not implementedDetection failed: Can't open pcap device: Function not implementedCan't open pcap device: Function not implemented
the eth1 thing is fine (since it doesnt exist anyway) and prismstumbler says that it finds my wlan0 interface.
now in ifconfig:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:56:C2:85
inet addr:192.168.0.8 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13508 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10811418 (10.3 Mb) TX bytes:777437 (759.2 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x200
and iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"apt7" Nickname:"apt7"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0D:88:25:03:A7
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:2346 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:restricted
Link Quality:92/92 Signal level:-40 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
so everything appears to be working (except for prism stumbler).
when i try to scan for other APs is when i get in trouble...
[root@local pcmcia]# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Function not implemented
how do i fix this... the point of wireless as i understand it is so i can go anywhere there is a wireless AP and be able to connect... how can i do that if i cannot scan for the other APs?
thanks...
