ubuntu wireless

[Nathan England]

I am only dealing with networks that are visible. I believe this card does not 
have driver support, though it is an orinoco gold card... oh well.

On Thursday 26 October 2006 17:07, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Yes, I remember now seeing some hardware having no support for that.  There
> is also the consideration that some wireless networks do not broadcast
> their ssid (a good measure security wise) so even if a card could see the
> network it has no reference for it.  Some software will show an unnamed
> network and others will not.
>
> On 10/26/06, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> > Am 26. Oct, 2006 schwätzte Nathan England so:
> > >> When using gnome on Ubuntu there is a networking icon in the right of
> >
> > the
> >
> > >> task bar at the top.
> > >>
> > >> Double-click to open the application, then choose to configure your
> > >> wireless interface. It'll give you a window for your password, but
> > >> then you'll be able to choose the various essid's that were found.
> > >
> > > This card will not scan for networks. None show up in this
> > > configuration
> >
> > box,
> >
> > > nor on the command line. But if I type in the name manually as the
> > > essid
> >
> > it
> >
> > > works great. Some tools scan differently and show ssid names when other
> >
> > tools
> >
> > > won't so I wanted to try something else.
> > >
> > > iwlist eth1 scan returns an error. Any other ideas?
> >
> > Ah, that might be a card or driver limitation.
> >
> > A couple of my cards won't scan for networks because there is no support
> > for some thing that I've forgotten.
> >
> > kwifimanager is the aplication that reported whatever capability not
> > being available.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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