The iwconfig command line that I use is: iwconfig wlan0 essid my-essid channel 10 commit
First try to run iwconfig by itself to see if the adaptor is present.. Also try running ndiswrapper -l to get a list of drivers, make sure that this matches your hardware. Check your dmesg for something like the following: $ dmesg |grep ndis [4294700.973000] ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no) [4294701.206000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded [4294701.216000] ndiswrapper: using irq 10 [4294701.873000] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:f5:e8:d7 using driver bcmwl5a, configuration file 14E4:4318:103C:1355.5.conf Of course check to make sure the ndiswrapper kernel module is loaded. The first thing I would do is set up the wireless network with *no* access controls, no MAC filtering, no WEP, and certainly not WPA. Once you can connect to a wide open network, then start layering in security. Failing all of that, I also have a PCMCIA card that is natively supported by 2.6 kernels. The card is an SMC 2835w, but memory express has let me try a number of cards in the past until I could find one that worked. I keep this card around as it works great with utilities like kismet. Hope this helps. On Saturday 08 October 2005 16:21, Cirez Communications, inc. wrote: > Nick, > > I have the same problem...What's worse, every once in a while it > detects my AP; but when I tell it to associate with it it returns an > error to the effect that the AP is not in its APs/Peer list... > BTW I'm using ndiswrapper as well... > > On 10/8/05, Nick Wiltshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm having troubles getting iwconfig to set the ssid for my network. It's > > under Suse 10, and I've tried all combinations of using YaST, manual > > configuration through a terminal, switching between WEP and WPA, and even > > 2 > > > > different WiFi cards, one USB and one PCMCIA. > > > > The problem seems to be that no matter what it refuses to set the ssid. > > What > > > > am I doing wrong? > > > > I'm using ndiswrapper if that matters. > > > > Nick > >
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