Re: Re: Wireless AP not being seen

[Ron Farrer <rbf@debian.org>]

Alberto Alonso (sp-1757810@ggsys.net) wrote:

> When you do 
> 
> iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid>
> 
> are you using the broadcom chipset?

Indeed. 

lspci -v:
<snipped>
0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00e7
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        Memory at d0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
<snipped>

And here are the relevant portions of my /etc/network/interfaces:
<snipped>
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        pre-up /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid <id snipped>
        pre-up /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
        pre-up /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key open <key snipped> 
<snipped>

HTH,
Ron