On 6/13/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danny Luker wrote: > > > Thanks Richard, I have since made progress in the area of manually > > bringing up wireless. I discovered, after much experimentation, that > > I can get my interface to play well by giving it the following: > > > > iwconfig ap off > > > That's an 'odd' command to have to issue...how is your wireless network > setup? Do you actually have an access point, or do you have another PC > providing the network access? The first is generally known as managed > mode, the other is ad-hoc mode. > > > iwconfig ath0 ap off > > * Configuring wireless network for ath0 > > * Connecting to "any" (WEP Disabled) ... > > > Well, if you don't have an access point, I see the problem. At the > point the 'Connecting to "any"...' message appears, the network scripts > do the equivalent of "iwconfig ath0 essid any", which undoes your "ap > off" command. > > If you are using ad-hock mode, you can try to set the following in > /etc/conf.d/wireless: > > essid_ath0="off" > mode_ath0="ad-hoc" > > The essid..off setting might cause an error. It isn't officially > supported, although it should be a valid option to iwconfig for an > essid. If it causes an error, just comment it out. > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
I never had to issue that command before and I do have a access point. Pretty standard Netgear 802.11b setup. No encryption, MAC access restriction, channel 1 ... nothing out of the normal and nothing has been changed on the AP. I have tried ad-hoc ... just out of curiosity ... no luck. When I issue the iwconfig ap off command the system connects in managed mode. I will try the ad-hoc parameters you suggested. Thanks, Danny -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
