[CLUE-Tech] A little wireless help

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Don" == Don Collier <dcollier at collierclan.com> writes:

Don> Hello all,
>> I have a wireless network at work in which we have the ssid
>> broadcast disabled. If I turn on the ssid broadcast I am able to
>> connect to this network just fine, but with the ssid disabled I am
>> not able to connect. I have tried using `ifup wlan0 essid xxxxxxx`
>> and have also tried putting the ssid=xxxxxx in the ifcfg-wlan0
>> config file. Nothing seems to be working. I would rather not have
>> to turn on the ssid broadcast if I don't have to, but I would like
>> to be able to connect to the wireless network using Linux.

ifup only cares about the interface name, you can't pass the essid
there. 

If you add it to the ifcfg-wlan0 file it needs to be: 

ESSID="yourname"

You can also try doing a 'iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever' after you do
the ifup, but then you have to do it every time. ;) 

>> My laptop is using Redhat 9 updated from Fedora Legacy project. I
>> am using wlan-ng-0.2.1pre21 and pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 for my wireless
>> card.  Wireless card is a Linksys wpc11 and the ap is the Linksys
>> wap54g. Wep is enabled as well.
>> 
>> Everything works great in Linux with the ssid being broadcast, it
>> also works fine with
Don> Windows with the ssid both on and off.
>> How do I go about getting this to work properly with the ssid
>> broadcast off?

kevin

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