[driverloader] DL 1.33 and Intel PRO/2100 802.11b

[Marc Boucher]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:00:53AM +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 22:53, Marc Boucher wrote:
> 
> > Setting the channel manually only makes sense on APs or on cards running in
> > "Ad-hoc" (IBSS) mode. In Managed mode, the AP normally determines the channel.
> 
> That makes sense, as my other wireless devices does not need to be told
> of the channel number.

Indeed. Note that not all devices (depending on origin,
country settings, etc) support channel 13. In USA, the FCC limits
devices to channels 01-11.

Do you have control over the AP?

Any possibility of temporarily switching it to channel 11 or 10 to see
if that makes it appear in the "iwlist scanning" output?

I would also recommend temporarily changing the authentication type to
"open system" and/or disabling WEP to make sure it doesn't interfere..
Once you can see the AP, then these settings should be selectively restored
one by one..

Marc

> 
> > > If there is anything you guys want me to try, give me a shout and I will
> > > give it a go.
> > 
> > Is your AP set to Open or Shared Key authentication?
> 
> It is set to Auto. I guess that means it picks whatever happens to be
> suitable for the situation?
> 
> > If the latter, you should append the 'restricted' keyword
> > to the key in the iwconfig command used to configure encryption.
> > 
> > i.e. if your wlan card is eth1, use 'iwconfig eth1 enc <key> restricted'
> 
> If I do that, the ifup script returns a failure on running the exact
> command above, although I can run it by hand and it doesn't complain.
> 
> > If it still doesn't work, please send dldrconfig --dumpdiag output
> > to support at linuxant.com.
> 
> That'll be sent in the next few minutes.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Anders Karlsson <anders at trudheim.com>
> Trudheim Technology Limited