[ILUG] 3com 3CRWE154A72 , madwifi & mandrake 10

[Lee Hosty]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Sean O'Donnell wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> We are trying to get this running , the card is picked up and
> I can ifup & ifdown it , but it never seems to find the access point
>
> The access point is a netgear 802.11b that several other machines are
> running off just fine.
>
> If anyone has any ideas that would be great.

1. Try running dhclient and see if that will initiate a connection

>  iwconfig ath0
> ath0      IEEE 802.11a  ESSID:""  Nickname:"193.168.2.1"

2. Try setting the ESSID