[Sussex] Wireless woes

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 01:04 +0100, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> Been faffing around trying to get the new wireless router working. It
> works. Good.
> 
> Now to get linux to see it.
> I got the card working - wlan0 appears.
> iwlist shows the network.
> I've switched off encryption.
> 
> But even given the right ESSID, the mac address shown for AP is 0.0.0....
> 
> I'm completely stumped. It's a crappy .b card, but I've enabled
> mixed-mode on the router. Could it be something to do with that?

Make sure the card is in "Infrastructure" or "Ad-Hoc" mode.  I got
caught out by this many, many times before I realised what was
wrong... :)

HTH,

Matt
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