Re: kde (again)?

[Jeremy Jongsma <jeremy jongsma org>]

Scanning worked fine for me on my broadcom card via ndiswrapper (using
the bcmwl5 driver).

Although it did lock up my machine every time I tried to switch networks
after the initial connection, but that's another story.

-j

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:07 -0800, Michael Blakeley wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:28 -0800, Michael Blakeley wrote:
> > 
> >>It almost works :-). The only WEP network I use is "closed" - that is, 
> >>it doesn't advertise its essid. So I have to set the essid manually, 
> >>from the command line. When I do that, "my-closed-network" shows up in 
> >>the nm-applet menu. If I select it, a gnome-keyring pops up to ask for 
> >>my password, and then nm-applet connects to the network and gets an IP.
> > 
> > 
> > Which version of NetworkManager?
> > 
> > This should work as long as you don't have a Cisco card as your main
> > card.  The Cisco firmware doesn't report the BSSID of hidden networks
> > like other cards do.  Therefore, we have no idea that the network is
> > even present.
> > 
> > If you do an 'iwlist eth<x> scanning', does the BSSID of your access
> > point show up in the list?  It will look something like:
> > 
> >           Cell 09 - Address: 00:06:25:E7:65:C5
> >                     ESSID:""
> >                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
> >                     Mode:Master
> >                     Channel:11
> >                     Encryption key:on
> >                     Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
> >                     Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11
> >                     Quality=25/100  Signal level=-84 dBm
> >                     Extra: Last beacon: 1476ms ago
> > 
> > You might have to do a couple scans to get your AP in the list.  If this
> > doesn't work at all, what card, driver, and firmware version do you
> > have?  Hidden networks might usually take a few seconds to show up in
> > NetworkManager, as not every AP is listed in every scan the card
> > reports.  Therefore, it takes a few scans to get a composite list that's
> > complete enough to match the BSSID of your hidden AP with the BSSID
> > we've got stored in GConf for it.
> 
> $ apt-show-versions network-manager
> network-manager/unknown uptodate 0.4.1+cvs20050817-0ubuntu4
> 
> My AP never shows up from a 'sudo iwlist wlan0 scan' at all - that's
> kind of the point, as I understand it. If you don't know that it's
> there, you can't access it. But I'm sure you know more about wifi than I do.
> 
> My card is a broadcom, via ndiswrapper. Perhaps that's the problem? I 
> believe ndis (and thus ndiswrapper) doesn't support some scanning modes.
> 
> $ lspci | grep 802
> 0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
> $ ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present
> 
> -- Mike
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