Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:50:26 +0000 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am unable to connect to a wireless access point unless it is set to > announce its ESSID. Not announcing the ESSID won't help much, anyway. FWIW, if there are no beacons in the air, how should your WiFi client tell what frequency to tune? How should it be aware of the network? That will only work if you set both channel and ESSID on the client (and WEP key, of course). > This happens despite me changing the key entry from > key_ESSID-name="12345678" to key="12345678". Revert that. Also set ---snip--- essid_wlan0="MyESSID" channel_wlan0="<channel number>" associate_order="forcepreferredonly" ---snip--- HTH, -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
