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Re: WLAN with the Linuxant driver



On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:12:36 +0100
Magnus von Koeller <magnus@vonkoeller.de> wrote:
 
> Now, I tried to just ifup eth1 but that fails. Then I specified the 
> WEP key in interfaces and that gets set correctly. I tried setting 
> the essid through iwconfig but that gives neither an error nor does 
> it change anything.

Is your card in 'Managed' mode? Some cards have various modes,
AP (for being an Accesspoint), Ad-Hoc (for a all peers network), Monitor
(for war-driving;), Managed (for being on a network managed by an AP ).
You can set it with iwconfig. man iwconfig.

grts Tim



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