ESSID not being set by iwconfig with broadcom bcmwl5 driver

hi

I've installed the broadcom bcmwl5 driver on my 2.6.18 suse 10 setup
using
ndiswrapper. Everything seems to be ok and I can do "iwlist scan" and
see
the linksys router (essid = linksys) with encryption off but when I try
to set the essid
using "iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys" it seems to work without error but

when I run "iwconfig wlan0" to check the essid is still not set. The
same happens
if I try to set the address manually using "ap" - nothing. Is this a
problem with
my driver or is there some setting on the router that perhaps is
preventing
joining its group (or whatever its called , I'm new to wireless).

Thanks for any help

B2003

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:24:19 -0800, Boltar wrote:

> hi
>
> I've installed the broadcom bcmwl5 driver on my 2.6.18 suse 10 setup
> using
> ndiswrapper. Everything seems to be ok and I can do "iwlist scan" and
> see
> the linksys router (essid = linksys) with encryption off but when I try
> to set the essid
> using "iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys" it seems to work without error but
>
> when I run "iwconfig wlan0" to check the essid is still not set. The
> same happens
> if I try to set the address manually using "ap" - nothing. Is this a
> problem with
> my driver or is there some setting on the router that perhaps is
> preventing
> joining its group (or whatever its called , I'm new to wireless).

Try quoting the essid name: iwconfig wlan0 essid "linksys" After doing
this what does ifconfig and iwconfig report? Did you get an inet addr?

If you can do a iwlist scan, then your wireless card is receiving and your
router is broadcasting. You may even be connected to your router, but
just haven't gotten an IP address. Do you have DHCP enable on your
router? If so, try this as root:

dhclient wlan0

This will request an IP address from the DHCP daemon. Sometimes this
is done automatically, other times, not. My wireless card which uses
the Madwifi driver doesn't.

man dhclient for the details.


Stef

Stefan Patric <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:24:19 -0800, Boltar wrote:

>> hi
>>
>> I've installed the broadcom bcmwl5 driver on my 2.6.18 suse 10 setup
>> using
>> ndiswrapper. Everything seems to be ok and I can do "iwlist scan" and
>> see
>> the linksys router (essid = linksys) with encryption off but when I try
>> to set the essid
>> using "iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys" it seems to work without error but

Try just doing ifup wlan0


>>
>> when I run "iwconfig wlan0" to check the essid is still not set. The
>> same happens
>> if I try to set the address manually using "ap" - nothing. Is this a
>> problem with
>> my driver or is there some setting on the router that perhaps is
>> preventing
>> joining its group (or whatever its called , I'm new to wireless).

>Try quoting the essid name: iwconfig wlan0 essid "linksys" After doing
>this what does ifconfig and iwconfig report? Did you get an inet addr?
>
>If you can do a iwlist scan, then your wireless card is receiving and your
>router is broadcasting. You may even be connected to your router, but
>just haven't gotten an IP address. Do you have DHCP enable on your
>router? If so, try this as root:

>dhclient wlan0

>This will request an IP address from the DHCP daemon. Sometimes this
>is done automatically, other times, not. My wireless card which uses
>the Madwifi driver doesn't.

>man dhclient for the details.


>Stef

On 2006-11-03, Boltar <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've installed the broadcom bcmwl5 driver on my 2.6.18 suse 10 setup
> using
> ndiswrapper. Everything seems to be ok and I can do "iwlist scan" and
> see
> the linksys router (essid = linksys) with encryption off but when I try
> to set the essid
> using "iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys" it seems to work without error but
>
> when I run "iwconfig wlan0" to check the essid is still not set. The
> same happens
> if I try to set the address manually using "ap" - nothing. Is this a
> problem with
> my driver or is there some setting on the router that perhaps is
> preventing
> joining its group (or whatever its called , I'm new to wireless).

Have you tried "iwconfig eth0 essid any" to let iwconfig attach to any
ESSID it finds? Unless there are several open ESSIDs it should find
yours.


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