On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:28 -0400, David Cohen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm here again reporting another possible problem with my wireless > card and b43 driver. Please don't bite me this time, I promise I'm > sending all useful inputs :D > Well, the problem is: > - After boot my laptop, the wireless card is not connected to my wifi > network. But if I just type "sudo iwlist scan", then it connects. > - The same problem does not occur if I use ndiswrapper or another laptops.
I believe it's a feature of mac80211. It only scans for APs under some circumstances. Setting ESSID triggers scanning. I suggest that you do it in this order: bring the interface up set the WEP key set the ESSID By the way, your AP is set for "shared key" authentication. It delays authentication because mac80211 tries "open system" first and fails. Even without that step, shared key authentication needs 4 packets to be sent, rather than 2 for open system authentication. It's believed that "shared key" is even less secure than "open system". See e.g. http://www.networkworld.com/research/2002/0909wepprimer.html -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
