On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 20:36 -0400, Doug Koobs wrote:
> I'm at Panera Bread in Clearwater Mall. I can't seem to get the wireless connection
> here working, although it works fine in Windows. iwlist shows that the essid is
> "panera", the channel is 11, mode is managed, there is no WEP or WPA.
I usually use iwlist scanning to confirm this also.
>
> iwconfig eth1 essid panera channel 11 mode managed
>
I configured a little shell script to run a few things for me
automatically. Here's the commands I use for free wi-fi AP's which work
great unless you're in a dense wifi area. Then of course you have to
manually set the essid like you did.
iwconfig wlan0 essid any
iwconfig wlan0 ap any
dhcpcd -d wlan0
the only dhcp client tool I have had any luck with is dhcpcd. That may
be the prob. Have you used ethereal to see what conversation is taking
place on the interface?
> But I never get an IP address. Even if I run "dhclient eth1" I don't get any dhcp
> offers. Running iwconfig shows an encryptom key in use, even though I didn't specify
> one. Is there some way to disable encryption? I tried adding "key off" to the
> iwconfig command above, but got an error about "off" being an unknown parameter or
> something...
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 5.04. I could never get it to run here under Warty either.
>
> I have no problem getting my wireless connection to work at home, where I'm running
> WEP and an 802.11g access point. Here at Panera it's an 802.11b access point. Is
> there some config option I need to use to switch from g to b?
No. Your card should speed step back on it's own (should....mine does)
> Has anybody else been
> able to get the wireless to work here?
Next time I'm down there I'll try it out and let you know.
HTH.
Mike Branda Jr.
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