Hello Andrew, On 5/31/05, Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 12:52 -0400, Dominique Orban wrote: > > > > Regarding the wireless card, I installed the madwifi drivers, loaded > > the modules, but 'ifup ath0' gives: > > > > % ifup ath0 > > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : > > Hi Dominique, > > Does your ESSID have spaces or other less usual characters in it?
No, it is a simple word made of latin letters only. > You should be able to issue the commands that ifup does manually, like > so: > > ifconfig ath0 up > iwconfig ath0 essid "your ss id" > dhclient ath0 > > ... and it would seem likely that the problem is occurring in the > "iwconfig" line :-) I am thinking the issue is even before that because I can't 'ifconfig ath0 up'. % ifconfig ath0 up ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > After the "ifconfig ath0 up" you should be able to scan for reachable > WLANs as well with "iwlist ath0 scan", and confirm that you can see your > own one that you expect to see. > > Finally, I doubt this is the case, but is it possible that you have MAC > address restriction enabled on your AP? Actually it is the case, but I have explicitly enabled this card. I can use it on the same laptop under (hum) Windows XP and on another laptop under SuSE linux. The behavior doesn't appear consistent---sometimes I boot with the card cold plugged and it is detected. Sometimes not. Is there a way to restore all the Debian configuration scripts without having to re-install? Thanks a lot for the help, I really appreciate. I am very new to Debian, as you can probably tell. Dominique > Hope this is some help! > > Regards, > Andrew McMillan. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington > WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St > DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 > The world isn't worse - the news coverage is better. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
