Wireless network diagnosis
Christoph Georgi
christoph.georgi at web.de
Sun May 8 03:44:18 UTC 2005
Thanks for the hint.. could it be that the signal of your neighbour's AP
is not very persistent? I suppose not.. :/
Wireless is a really strange thing.. not very consistant at all (at
least with non-enterprise equipment). And you never now what it's
doing.. (Sry, I got a bit frustrated with wireless over here..)
.christoph
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:50:58PM +1200, Christoph Georgi wrote:
>
>>Now that you have configured the the essid on your machine to be
>>'laniel', it's understandable that you can't see your neighbours AP
>>anymore, isn't it? Try to broadcast your AP's essid and set your
>>computer to essid 'any'. Now you should see both APs...?!
>
>
> No, the 'scan' function of 'iwlist' displays all the APs
> within range, not just the one I'm connected to. I've been
> using this for months. And in response to your question:
> doing 'iwlist eth0 scan' after setting the ESSID to 'any'
> now only displays the local ESSID, which is '<hidden>'.
>
> Try 'iwlist eth0 scan' in an area where you know there are
> multiple APs. You'll see all of them listed, even if you're
> connected to just one of them.
>
--
Christoph Georgi
-----------------------------
email. christoph.georgi at web.de
fon. +64 (0)9 815 8259
registered linux user #380268
ubuntu 5.04 (ubuntu.com)
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list