[ltp] Wireless Networking

[Martin West]

Brilliant, iwconfig showed mode: ad-hoc, did iwconfig mode Managed and
presto it sprang into life.
Updated wireless.opts and rebooted and its still working.
Thanks Martin West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Mayoff" <mayoff@dqd.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Wireless Networking


> +---------- On Dec 13, Martin West said:
> > I have the same problem. Works ok on windows me but not on MDK 8.1, I
have
> > been playing with the wireless.props file. The card comes up and is
visible
> > but does not connect.
>
> What does iwconfig say? If you have an AP, then iwconfig's output should
> say "Mode:Managed" and should tell you the hardware 802.11 address
> of your AP. If it says "Mode:Ad-Hoc", then you have to change the
> configuration; the mode cannot be autodetected.
>
> If iwconfig doesn't print the right address for your AP, then you may
> need to try playing with the essid, freq, channel, and rate parameters
> to iwconfig. Normally the freq, channel, and rate should be autodetected
> (actually only one of channel and freq should be used; they are
> different ways of saying the same thing), but perhaps something is
> keeping that from happening.
>
> You should also make sure that your AP isn't using WEP if you haven't
> set the WEP key on your notebook.
>
>
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