[Ndiswrapper-general] Intermittent ESSID setting response

[Peter S. <uc...@uc...>]

I am using a Texas Instruments ACX 111 with the tnet1130 driver. It does
work, but it's a bit intermittent and it's not very predictable.

My entry in /etc/network/interfaces looks like this:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wireless_mode Managed
        wireless_essid <myessid>
        wireless_key <mypassword>

and this worked on startup for a while and then it stopped. When it boots,
I do iwconfig and I find the essid has not been set. I issue the command:

iwconfig wlan0 essid <myessid>

and run iwconfig again, but it still isn't set. Then after some messing
about with iwlist scan and setting the essid a few more times it finally
takes. Can anybody explain this fussy behaviour, and what I can do about
it?

Thanks,

Peter

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