[NBLUG/talk] SSID and wlan-ng drivers?

greenfly at greenfly.net greenfly at greenfly.net
Fri Feb 28 15:11:02 PST 2003


> > > the wlan-ng FAQ ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/FAQ states
> > > it can't be done with iwconfig.

iwconfig won't work on prism2 cards if you are using wlan-ng.  The main way you
end up specifying the SSID is through the wlan.conf file.  I've found the best
success personally by using the HostAP drivers instead of wlan-ng for prism2
cards.  The hostap drivers accept all the standard wireless-utils utilities such
as iwconfig, etc. and in general try to cooperate better with the "standard" way
of setting up wireless cards under Linux.

If you are running Debian sid, you can get the source for hostap by getting the
hostap-source package.  Otherwise you can fetch it from the hostap site:
http://hostap.epitest.fi

Alternatively, if you are using Debian, you can also change the SSID within your
/etc/network/interfaces file by setting the wireless_essid variable for your
interface.

Kyle



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