I'm trying to make wifi work in Linux on this computer I'm sitting at. I'm able to install and use ndiswrapper and it says the driver and hardware are present and working. Then I use iwconfig to see what wireless connections there are and wlan0 (as well as lo) is there. When I use ifconfig it says that wlan0 is up and running.
Yet wlan0 refuses to connect to the AP and I can't get Internet. I think the reason is that I'm unable to get iwconfig to set any parameters on the wireless card. I can set 'iwconfig wlan0 mode blahblah' and it works, but 'iwconfig wlan0 key whatever' doesn't work and 'iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever' doesn't work. I'm able to set whether the key is open or restricted, but not the actual key, and I'm not able to set the ESSID. I turned off encryption on the AP and tried to set 'iwconfig wlan0 key open' but that didn't work. It still won't change the ESSID. I issue the command, it returns immediately, as if it worked, but a subsequent 'iwconfig wlan0' shows ESSID and key as being not set. I've tried 'iwconfig wlan0 key s:password' but that doesn't work either. For some reason, iwconfig is not able to set ESSID and key. Any ideas why? I'm doing this on Ubuntu (tried FC3, but I wasn't able to get ndiswrapper to work). I'm very unfamiliar with apt-get and yum and rpm so that's just adding to the frustration. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
