[lug] LUG Digest, Vol 83, Issue 1

[Sir Konstantine]

Have you tried connecting to the access point with the "ap" flag and mac
address instead of the essid and network name? That might solve your problem
of having several access points with the same essid.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <lug-request at lug.boulder.co.us> wrote:

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> From: Chris Riddoch <riddochc at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lug] Wireless problem
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> I've got a little wireless networking problem.  Most open networks,
> I can connect to just fine.  But there's a somewhat larger network
> with several access points all with the same ESSID that I can't
> seem to associate to.
>
> The signal strength should be more than good enough, from where
> I've been trying to make it work, 46/100.
>
> Here's what iwconfig shows me, after I try to associate:
>
> eth2      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Auraria Campus"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
>          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
>          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-114 dBm  Noise level=-114 dBm
>          Rx invalid nwid:562  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:5812   Missed beacon:0
>
> This happens with two different wireless cards, a Cisco Aironet 350,
> and an Orinoco Silver.  Both of which are truly ancient.
>
> Which brings me to another question: anyone got a spare laptop
> pcmcia/cardbus-style card that supports WPA2 that could be
> donated to a starving college student?
>
> Thanks,
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> Chris Riddoch
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-Konstantine La
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