Re: wireless on Debian

2007-03-02 Thread Mr Alk3
I just wrote a tutorial on how I got mine working. It is a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card, though and not a 4318. It may be a different way of going about it ie a patch that is necessary. If you want a write up on the tutorial let me know- I can attach it on a rep

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Freddy Freeloader
LOL. Yeah, I've gotten off what would have been some very expensive tickets too. The only reason I could ever think of was because of the cars I was driving at the time piqued the cops interest. I once got pulled over for doing about 90 in town and having a huge blue cloud of tire smoke behind

Re: Broadcom wireless, "Access Point: Invalid"

2007-03-02 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Try blacklisting ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. I don't think ndiswrapper being in one kernel should affect a different kernel, but I'm no kernel expert. I know I've always had to reinstall ndiswrapper after every kernel update that went from one kernel release to another, i.e. 2.6.17

Re: wireless on Debian

2007-03-02 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hardware configurations sure makes a difference. I just loaded the bcm43xx module and blacklisted ndiswrapper. My system became absolutely unusable for accomplishing anything. The mouse cursor freezes intermittently, windows not maximized jump around on the desktop, and all the while cpu usage ne

Re: WEP

2007-03-02 Thread Mr Alk3
Its not my AP only. My dad also uses it. He owns it. I may be able to persuade him though. :D On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:27:49AM +0100, pinniped wrote: > > Hahaha ... the "Worthless Encryption Protocol" - don't ever use it, you'd > only be fooling yourself. Even WPA-PSK isn't that much bett

WEP

2007-03-02 Thread pinniped
Hahaha ... the "Worthless Encryption Protocol" - don't ever use it, you'd only be fooling yourself. Even WPA-PSK isn't that much better - in fact you can implement much more secure communications with absolutely no "wireless encryption" but that takes a little effort. You should be using WPA

Re: wireless on Debian

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Mr Alk3 wrote: I am using WEP encryption, but can set up WPA etc etc. I did notice that when I was configuring the interface to connect to the WEP encrypted AP that it wasn't finding any of the WEP access point in the area. I had a problem slightly similar to this about a year ago. I had wpa_

Re: wireless on Debian

2007-03-02 Thread Mr Alk3
I am using WEP encryption, but can set up WPA etc etc. I did notice that when I was configuring the interface to connect to the WEP encrypted AP that it wasn't finding any of the WEP access point in the area. I might have to change my AP to use WPA as I am seeing that most people are getting

Re: Broadcom wireless, "Access Point: Invalid"

2007-03-02 Thread Mr Alk3
Maybe I need to just set the MAC address when I configure it with iwconfig? The router is our cable modem as well. It is a 2WIRE, but I don't know what model. I am using the bcm43xx module on my 2.6.20 kernel. I also have a 2.6.18 kernel running with ndiswrapper. Could it be a problem that

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wireless on Debian

2007-03-02 Thread pinniped
I know there's a section on how to set up wireless stuff in the Debian docs but I can't find it at the moment. Anyway, if you use PSK-TKIP, look here for an example: http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-6fdd87d329e68a583e5fde32c6b21e460e5541a5 If you use WPA-PSK (default on WinDos and ther

Re: Broadcom wireless, "Access Point: Invalid"

2007-03-02 Thread Freddy Freeloader
The access point on a wireless router is its MAC address. The only reason I can see that yours might be considered invalid is due to what I see as a conflict in configuration. The router reports that it has an encryption key, but that the security mode is open. I find that pretty strange. What

Broadcom wireless, "Access Point: Invalid"

2007-03-02 Thread Mr Alk3
I have my Broadcom wireless card half functional and it can be configured. I just can seem to get it to connect to an AP. When I do an 'iwconfig' I get this: # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"ByteMe" Nickname:"Br