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

[augie]

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:13:53PM -0800, greenfly at greenfly.net wrote:
> 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.

i'll have a look at the hostap drivers. have you tried them with
kismet yet? i see an entry in the kismet.conf file for them, so i
assume they work well with it.

augie


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