greywolf19

I finally found the original disks [they had been filed away for 'safety' and could not remember I had them ! } and got the proper .inf files .. the driver loaded and the card is 'basically working in that Kwifi goes green ! and recognizes the wireless signal BUT [it seems there is always a 'but'] the laptop flatly refuses to see the router or any other pc in the net .. configured the card and network settings
Did an iwconfig and the main things that I see are different from the pc that is working is as follows ..

There is no idication of Access Point .. ie it shows 00:00:00:00...
RTS thru : 2347B fragment thru 2346B [the pc shows these as off]
Essid : off/any ....[note: I have repeatidly tried to set this but even though wcardconfig accepts the name I give it, it does not seem to stick .. i have even tried to do it thru a cmd line in root ...]

My Knoppix PC shows what I assume is the Mac address for the router and it also shows RTS & Fragment as 'off' ..
I have tried pump -i wlan0 with no success, the laptop card configurations all seem ok ..

The laptop wireless works perfectly fine under windows xp pro


What do you think ??

TIA
Wolf

greywolf19

it seems that when I disable the WEP then all works just fine ... still no idea why using WEP will cause above problems but .........
wolf