Hej Eric, > eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"rover" Nickname:"eric-ibook" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 > Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 > Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:off > Power Management:off > Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:134/153 Noise level:134/153 > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > and nothing works (I can't ping anything). > > Access Point is now 44:44:44:44:44:44, which I don't explain. More > importantly, "Link Quality" is 0/92 and "Noise level" is 134/153. I > don't know what this exactly means but that doesn't sound good to me!
if the access point has a bogus value (like 44:44:... or 00:00:... you had up there), the airport card did not find it. Not finding it means that it also does get a zero link quality and signal/noise both in the same range. There might be numerous reasons for that; Most probably it's some problem between the setup of both wireless stations. What kind of hardware is used for the base station? Were you able to connect there by wireless LAN using some other hardware (eg. another laptop? or using OS X)? If possible, I suggest also booting into OS X and checking if/what networks are visible there; that helped me quite a bit when I set up my own environment. have fun playing around, Philipp Kaeser
