wpc11 and cisco aironet base station

digitalnick

humm ok i dunno what im doin wrong ... i have a linksys base station at home runs unencrypted on channel 6 i can connect to the net just fine ... at school they have a cisco aironet runnin on channel 6 unencrypted but i cant get access through it ... im using the wlan-ng drivers and have tried setting the usessid thing in the wlan-ng opts to tsunami which is what its set at but still no luck .. at home i dont have to specify the ssid. any one have any ideas what might be goin on here?

djaquay · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 28

Not sure if this'll help, but I recently changed from straight pcmcia-cs to using the wlan-ng drivers, and alluva sudden the SSID started to matter on my home network. Perhaps you made a change that caused this sort of thing to happen?

Dave

digitalnick · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 4:17 am Post subject:

i was trying to change to the straight pcmcia with no luck may i ask why i=u switched to the ng drivers? and can i possibly seeyour config file?

djaquay · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 28

digitalnick · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 2:57 pm Post subject:

well i guess any that are related to the wlan-ng drivers ..... wlan-ng.opts ... what did you do with the other pcmcia_cs drivers and config files ... just left em there? i think mine is tryin to load both but im not sure ... i get errors when starting about no net.wlan0

kismet was my next venture .... have you got it working yet? i am usin airsnort atm and thats how i pickud up the school info so its weird that i cant connect .... i even asked the department head and he said its set on all the defaults unencrypted.

thanks

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on a side note i was reading your blog .... on the dialup thing soem sattelite compainis have broadband access you might check into that. other than that you sound like an interesting fellow.

vern · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 9

A few things to note:

Channel doesn't matter with 802.11. SSID does, so you may need to set your SSID to that of the Aironet AP. (Ok, saw that you tried that--tsunami is the default SSID that Aironet uses)

Also, I have an Aironet 4800 (one of the first 802.11b) at home, and there is an encoding setting that needs to be set properly on it before any non Aironet devices will associate to it. Find out if anyone else is able to connect to the AP with a non-Aironet card.

digitalnick · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 4:35 pm Post subject:

thanks i bet thats it ill check it out