Re: still struggling with ndiswrapper

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On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:04 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > Okay, now I'm running a kernel with 16k stacks. I also loaded
> > ndiswrapper 1.5. 
> > 
> > I can load everything like this:
> > 
> > ndiswrapper -i /install/ndiswrapper/broadcom/bcmwl5.inf
> > /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
> > /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> > /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key my_key_goes_here
> > /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid my_ssid_goes_here
> > /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> > 
> 
> One more thing. If I run iwconfig after running the above commands I get
> this:
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point:
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
>           RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> It doesn't show the ESSID, says Encryption is off, and Access Point
> address of 00:00:00:00:00:00.
> 
> I assume these settings are part of my problem. Why didn't the settings
> "take"? Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
> 

I think the channel may have an affect like this.  What channel is the
AP using?  Then set the card to the same channel.

> Thanks,
> James
> 


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