On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:55:25PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-10-25, Martin Marcher <martin@marcher.name> wrote: > > 2007/10/25, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can > >> successfully connect to my home wireless using: > > > > in /etc/network/interfaces my eth0 looks like this: > > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > wpa-driver wext > > wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf > > > > this make ifup and ifdown work "as expected" - bring up wpa_supplicant > > and then the interface. > > > > Ok, i've tried fixing my interfaces file and using ifup, and also > changing ssid=any or ssid="any" in my wpa_supplicant.conf file. I've > appended the relevant output below. I suspect the problem might be a > hidden ssid, as Andrew suggested. When I use WinXP on this same > laptop, I get connected automatically to ssid SMU_PUBLIC. However, > this ssid does not show up when I run iwlist ath0 scanning (output > pasted below). That's so frustrating. So, maybe skip the ssid method. instead use iwconfig's "ap" option with the MAC address of the ap you want. Grab the mac address from windows and just use it. A
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