Re: kde (again)?

[Michael Blakeley <mike+gnome blakeley com>]

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