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