wireless lan; smc

Hi,

I am i trouble with my SMC 2802w v2 wireless card. Actually I can load the
driver. But it is impossible to bring up the Interface, because I can't set
the ESSID using 'iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC'.

# iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC
#
..... there is even no error message. It is just not set :-(


# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

# cat /var/log/messages
Jul 8 18:54:22 linux kernel: ndiswrapper: unsupported module, tainting
kernel.
Jul 8 18:54:22 linux kernel: ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
Jul 8 18:54:22 linux kernel: ndiswrapper adding 2802w.sys
Jul 8 18:54:22 linux kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device
00:04:e2:b2:a5:e8 using driver 2802w.sys

# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 67072 0

Has somebody of you got an idea to handle this problem?

thanks a lot
Robert

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004, Robert Brendel <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am i trouble with my SMC 2802w v2 wireless card. Actually I can load the
> driver. But it is impossible to bring up the Interface, because I can't set
> the ESSID using 'iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC'.
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC

wlan interfaces do not have the necessary hooks to change things like
ESSID and WEP on the fly with iwconfig. Those have to be set in related
files for wlan-ng (at least on my SuSE 8.0 laptop).

Not familiar with your specific card, but for my SMC 2632W using wlan-ng
(prism2_cs from external instead of kernel pcmcia), I set ESSID and WEP in
/etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts. Because it works, I have been reluctant to
upgrade Linux (not familiar with kernel pcmcia). Although, I may upgrade
soon since I now have an alternate OS independent external wireless device
I could fall back on if I trip up (WET11).

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> Not familiar with your specific card, but for my SMC 2632W using wlan-ng
> (prism2_cs from external instead of kernel pcmcia), I set ESSID and WEP in
> /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts. Because it works, I have been reluctant to
> upgrade Linux (not familiar with kernel pcmcia). Although, I may upgrade
> soon since I now have an alternate OS independent external wireless device
> I could fall back on if I trip up (WET11).

I am sorry, but I am not using a PCMCIA card, either the Prism54-driver.

Robert

ok, today I found the errors:

1. I had to install ndiswrapper 0.7 (0.8 is not working).
2. The Install-Script of ndiswrapper does not copy the module.
3. The name after the keyword essid must be written in "". (iwconfig wlan0
essid "NetName")
4. I removed the SuSE network configure scripts and use my own.
5. I had to add my Mac-Adress at my AP's Mac Access Control List.

Now It's working fine. Even the LEDs are working.

Robert