Could someone PLEASE for the love of anything explain to me why iwconfig WILL NOT set the Mode of my Wireless card..
[root@linuxbox ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Basement" Nickname:"linuxbox"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437 GHz Cell: 00:13:46:F5:69:9C
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-121 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:9AF8-234C-0B12-FEC3-95BA-2154-64 Security mode
pen
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[root@linuxbox ~]# iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
[root@linuxbox ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Basement" Nickname:"linuxbox"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437 GHz Cell: 00:13:46:F5:69:9C
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-121 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:9AF8-234C-0B12-FEC3-95BA-2154-64 Security mode
pen
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[root@linuxbox ~]#
Any Ideas? and no matter WHAT I try the GUI is useless Won't let me connect no matter what I try. I've got this to connect a couple times, no hang ups no freezing worked Fine.. After I rebooted It won't let me change the mode from Ad-Hoc to Managed
