On Tuesday 18 April 2006 14:36, Claude Jones wrote: >On Tue April 18 2006 14:17, Gene Heskett wrote: >> screen tabs: >> Basic: >> ESSID 'coyote.den' (my local domain) > >This could be your problem. Your "local domain" is not the same >as "ESSID". ESSID is set in your access point settings. I tried to blank it, but wap11gui takes a long walk on a short pier when I do that. So I reset it to 'wap11', real inventive that. The signal went away. Changed it back to coyote.den & the signal came back, but still no connect. Change it to anything else and the signal disappears. There is no mention of the phrase ESSID in the kwifimanager docs. >It's >just a name you can give to your wireless lan network - you can >also make it non-broadcastable, so one has to know it before >they can connect. Don't mistake that feature for strong >security, because it's easily cracked, but it does a little to >discourage the casual road-warrior. If you already know all >this, pass me the gin... ;-) > >> Channel set to 6 >> Access Point Name 'pipeline.coyote.den' (And I've set that in >> hosts, its pingable) > >-- >Claude Jones >Bluemont, VA, USA Still collecting hair from the keyboards here... -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
