Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] question on essid
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From: James W. <phi...@gm...> - 2004-08-20 05:38:44
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I know from the faq that the essid will not be displayed in iwconfig unless the wireless card has associated itself with an access point. In a previous message (that can't seem to find right now) someone said that you needed to make sure that the ap is broadcasting the essid and to scan for the ap to help out. Is it required for the ap to be broadcasting the essid for the local card to connect to it? I'm asking this because I'm still having difficulty connecting my card to my schools network which does not broadcast it's essid. Here's a recap in case someone has an idea about that situation. I have a Linksys 54g wireless card that I can connect up to my home ap which is a Linksys WRT54G with encryption on. Works great with no problems besides a little bugginess in the new pre10 I just installed two days ago. My school network is a 802.11b network, running encryption, but does not have the essid broadcasted. Could not connect to it at all after attempting everything humanly. I know the network works as my recently deceased card worked from the same seat, and there were about 3 other laptops on the network in the same room. I have now tried using both .8 and 10rc1 with no luck. Here is some info on my system: Gentoo Linux Kernel 2.6.8 lspci Info: Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Drivers: Latest xp drivers downloaded from linksys site. NDISDriver Version: both .8 and .10rc1 Any help would be appreciated. Want me to try something, no problem, let me know and I'll test my day away (after my exam and work tomorow of course). James |
From: Giridhar P. <gi...@lm...> - 2004-08-20 06:02:26
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Ndiswrapper itself doesn't communicate with the card, so if the Windows driver doesn't associate, then the problem may be with the Windows driver you are using. If you can associate to the AP with in Windows with a driver, then you may want to use that with ndiswrapper. Some cards/drivers apparently work with non-broadcasting APs. -- Giri |