[ltp] Re: R40 centrino wireless *almost* working

[dirk husemann]

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On Friday 26 March 2004 14.38, Andreas D. Landmark wrote to=20
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 03:05:51PM -0800, Krishna Sethuraman wrote:
> > Wireless under Linux won't associate with an AP, but seems to have all
> > other signs of life.  Can someone give me the right iwconfig commands
> > that they use to get it to associate with an AP such as Starbucks
> > T-mobile, or a 'hotspotzz' site?
> >
> > I arrive at the (e.g.) Starbucks and:
> >
> > modprobe ndiswrapper
> >
> > iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> > iwconfig wlan0 power all
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid any
> > iwconfig wlan0 ap any
>
> I haven't used any of the hotspots you've mentioned, but in my
> experience setting essid to any doesn't do anything for me.

not sure about the ndiswrapper driver, but what i do if i want to associate=
=20
with a hotspot AP is
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	iwlist eth1 scan

that will give me a list of ESSIDs in my environment, then use the ESSID=20
explicitly usually does the trick.

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