Re: [Madwifi-users] Can't set ESSID (was Some problems)

[Steve K <sh...@mm...>]

Matt --

Thanks for the suggestion.  Initially I felt downgrading the wireless 
tools was the path of least resistance.  But since that didn't work, I 
went ahead and installed 2.4.22-ac4 and returned to the unmodified 
wireless tools.  I also recompiled madwifi with the new kernel.  Now 
iwconfig --version returns:

# iwconfig --version
iwconfig  Version 26
           Compatible with Wireless Extension v16 or earlier,
           Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v16.

ath0      Recommend Wireless Extension v13 or later,
           Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v15.

I'm not sure why it says that ath0 was compiled with wireless extension 
v15.  I am not getting the warnings again when I use iwconfig:

# iwconfig ath0
Warning: Driver for device ath0 has been compiled with version 15
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
Some things may be broken...

ath0      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.24GHz  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
           Bit Rate:6Mb/s   Tx-Power:off   Sensitivity=0/242700000
           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:0/1  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

And I still can't set the essid.  What is going wrong here?  I'm stumped.

cheers,
-steve