[wplug] setting the mode/ssid wlan0

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 18:10, aroon pahwa wrote:
> On Sat, July 24, 2004 10:52 am, Alexandros Papadopoulos said:
> > There's something fishy going on here... it doesn't even accept the
> > ESSID? Perhaps the interface wlan0 somehow maps to the wrong
> > physical device?
> >
> > -A
>
> rgr on fish.

?

> im not sure how to check if its mapping to the wrong device. 
> everything ive seen shows that its pointing to prism2_pci [lsmod, all
> device settings, etc] and [oh yeah..] the wireless card works.  i can
> use the tmobile hotspot here and the local universities wireless
> internet, i just cant manually change my ssid or mode [LAME!].
>
> so as you might have inferred, my ssid has changed before [between
> CMU and tmobile] so if the system can change my ssid then i *should*
> be able to...right?

Absolutely. Could you boot KNOPPIX and try setting the ESSID from there?

-A