Subject: Re: does iwi driver not work with closed network?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/04/2005 20:55:39
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 20:41:53 +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> ># ifconfig nwid xxx nwkey xxx
>
> where the nwid is the real one in both cases? I'm asking because you can
> use an empty string "" too, which would then be like ANY under windows and
> catch the first nwid that's broadcasted - and if you'd turn off broadcasts
> it would be expected to not work.
Ah, sorry. Yes, I use the same string as I configured on the airport.
> Can you contact the author of the iwi driver? His address is in the iwi.4
> manpage...
That could be the next step. I just wondered if there was a known
problem with "closed networks".
rvdp