I am in an area with several people running wireless networks, most of which are open. As a result my card seems to attach itself to any one of them at random and never seems to find mine. I can't figure out how to force it to look for my network. My ESSID is "GENERA" and the following is in wireless.opts
# Wireless settings at home
genera,*,*,00:02:2D:B8:33:6E)
INFO="Wireless Home Network"
ESSID="GENERA"
KEY="****-****-****-****-****-****-**"
MODE="Managed"
RATE="auto"
FRAG=auto
;;
ifcfg-eth2 contains (can I ommit all these WIRELESS_* lines?)
DEVICE=eth2
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
NETMASK=225.225.225.0
ONBOOT=no
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID=GENERA
WIRELESS_RATE=11M
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="****-****-****-****-****-****-**"
WIRELESS_FRAG=auto
NEEDHOSTNAME=no
and iftab has
eth0 mac 00:0B
B:1D:FB:ED
eth2 driver orinoco_cs mac 00:02:2D:B8:33:6E
Here is the result of ifconfig (clearly my access point is being ignored)
eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"NETGEAR" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:87:8D:74
Bit Rate:1Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key
ff
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:17/92 Signal level:-83 dBm Noise level:-101 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:2
Tx excessive retries:53 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
If i manually set my ESSID a-la "iwconfig eth2 essid GENERA" this does nothing. I just don't see a way to force connecting to a particular access point.
