Driver Installion problem for NetGear wireless card

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 12/30/2007 04:33 AM, Larry Shields wrote:
> 
>> 
>> But when I try to see what iwlist wlan0 scan tells me it shows the essid
>> name as "2wire363"   Now where would that come from, any idea...???
> 
> Your modem:
> 
<http://support.2wire.com/cgi-bin/twowire.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_sid=ZkQEKwUi&p_lva=&p_li=&p_faqid=1199&p_created=1179861438&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0yMTImcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**>

I trust you realize that you don't just get to choose the essid from the
client end - you have to set it in the modem (or use the default - but
that's _never_ a good idea.  You probably have no idea how many _different_
networks named "linksys" you can find in the average city core :-) )
-- 
derek