Wireless network diagnosis

Christoph Georgi christoph.georgi at web.de
Sun May 8 01:53:21 UTC 2005


Have you checked the Encryption settings of your AP? Are there other 
computers around that are able to see the AP, i.e. is it just your 
notebook that cannot connect to it?

regrads
.christoph

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:21:20AM -0700, Adam Brault wrote:
> 
>>What finally got it to work was getting the latest driver installed
>>(see here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-12270.html --
>>see the howto about four posts down)
> 
> 
> Yep, I already have the latest:
> 
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.3
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> 
> 
>>Then I ran a simple:
>>
>>$ sudo iwconfig eth1 essid any
>>
>>and from that point on it worked GREAT.
> 
> 
> Well, I already have that in /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 	# wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
> 	wireless-mode managed
> 	wireless-essid any
> 

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