On Sunday 18 January 2004 17:02, Roy Kidder wrote: > I was able to get the wifi working. The laptop came with a 54g chip > onboard, but I bought an SMC card that I had found online cheap and > did a little research on. When I got the SMC card, I downloaded the > source (actually, the really interesting stuff was already compiled, > the only source that came with it was just enough to get it working > on different kernel versions). The module installed fine, with the > expception of warnings that it wasn't GPL-friendly. But I had a > really hard time getting the card working with WEP enabled. Without > WEP, it worked fine. But with WEP, it took forever for it to > associate with an AP. Setting the ESSID last didn't seem to help, > despited the fact that it's supposed to "commit" everything on many > cards. I had done some playing around and despite the fact that I had > set the ESSID, the ESSID value would appear blank when I'd do a > "iwconfig eth0". After about 2 minutes, the ESSID value would be > populated, the card would associate with the AP and I could go about > the business of getting a DHCP address. I never did figure out > exactly what was n't going wrong, but I suspected that the ESSID > wasn't being set by iwconfig and the card learned it when it recieved > a beacon from the AP.
Was the SMC card a new prism based card if it is then look the GPL driver from www.prism54.org. It evolves very fast and it has quite a good support last time I checked. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
