Re: Wireless card trying to attach to other access points
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:44:11 -0500 (CDT)
Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@charter.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I am running debian lenny beta 2 on a thinkpad t23 laptop with a prism 2.5
> onboard card. My problem is that after installing, before I tried to do
> anything with the card, I discovered with iwconfig that I had two
> interfaces--wlan0 and eth1--that were supposedly using an essid and access
> point that presumably belongs to one of my neighbors. I don't think the
> card is actually succeeding in a full connection as I can't access the
> internet when I remove the ethernet cable, bu I can't get rid of these
> wrong essids. When I put in my essid for my network, which I also have in
> /etc/interfaces, the information appears to be accepted but the attempt to
> connect with dhclient doesn't work and when I reboot I find that these
> interfaces are again trying to connect with the wrong access point. How do
> I get rid of these and get my crd working properly on my system. Either
> that, or how do I get rid of the interfaces for this card completely and
> use the pcmcia atheros chip card that I have used successfully with
> another machine in the past?
A card that is brought up will generally attempt to connect to any AP
in range, unless it is explicitly told to limit itself to a specific
AP. There are different ways to manage
wireless, /etc/network/interfaces, NetworkManager, etc. We need to
know what your config is.
> Cheryl
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