Re: ESSID not being set by iwconfig with broadcom bcmwl5 driver

On 2006-11-03, Boltar <boltar2003@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've installed the broadcom bcmwl5 driver on my 2.6.18 suse 10 setup
using
ndiswrapper. Everything seems to be ok and I can do "iwlist scan" and
see
the linksys router (essid = linksys) with encryption off but when I try
to set the essid
using "iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys" it seems to work without error but

when I run "iwconfig wlan0" to check the essid is still not set. The
same happens
if I try to set the address manually using "ap" - nothing. Is this a
problem with
my driver or is there some setting on the router that perhaps is
preventing
joining its group (or whatever its called , I'm new to wireless).

Have you tried "iwconfig eth0 essid any" to let iwconfig attach to any
ESSID it finds? Unless there are several open ESSIDs it should find
yours.


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John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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