Wireless network diagnosis
Stephen R Laniel
steve at laniels.org
Sun May 8 02:25:50 UTC 2005
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:53:21PM +1200, Christoph Georgi wrote:
> 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?
I noticed that the AP was hiding its ESSID, so I did a
manual
iwconfig eth0 essid laniel
then did an ifdown/ifup, and the router came up fine. Now
when I do an iwlist eth0 scan, I get
eth0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:17:C5:9C:8F
ESSID:"<hidden>"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality=86/100 Signal level=-44 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 228ms ago
which is the proper information for my router. But I don't
get the neighbor's router, with a publicly-broadcast ESSID.
It used to be that I'd get the neighbor's router, but not
our own. There's something screwy afoot.
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