[driverloader] Problem with a Dell INSPIRON 510m and Intel 2200BG

[Linuxant Support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

when you are in managed mode, setting the bit rate is ignored by the Windows 
driver since the driver will automatically do it for you.

The problem is, like you mentionned, is that you are unable to see an access 
point in the output of the 'iwlist scanning' command. As long as you will not 
be able to see an access point in the output of the previous command, you 
will be unable to associate (connect) with the access point.

Please make sure that your wireless card is activated. It is possible that you 
might have to press a button or look in the BIOS for an option to activate 
the card.

Make sure that your access point broadcast it's ESSID and make sure that the 
ESSID string is not empty. You should also disable all MAC address filtering 
and make sure that the channel is set between 1 and 11. If your access point 
have a CTS protection mode, please disable it. You should also make sure that 
you use the latest firmware version for your access point.

Please let us know if you require more assistance.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Le 27 Juin 2004 10:15, Florian Quetting a écrit :
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> Hi,
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 510m with an Intel 2200BG MiniPCI-Wireless-card.
> I can Install driverloader and set it up with the native Intel drivers
> and it seems I can set essid, mode, networkname, encryption keys and
> power management, but i can't change the bitrate. iwlist wlan0 scan also
> does not do anything. Using ndiswrapper, I even can not change mode
> (ad-hoc, managed). Any ideas?
>
>
> - ------------------- Driverloader -------------------------
> iwlist scan (short)
> eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> wlan0     Failed to read scan data : No data available
>
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:""  Nickname:"unknown"
> ~          Mode:Managed  Bit Rate=54Mb/s
> ~          RTS thr=1600 B   Fragment thr=2304 B
> ~          Encryption key:off
> ~          Power Management:off
> ~          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
> ~          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> ~          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
>
>
> cat /proc/net/wireless
> Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               |
> Missed | WE
> ~ face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc |
> beacon | 16
> ~ wlan0: 0000    0     0     0        0      0      0      0      0
> ~     0
>
> -
> ----------------------------------------NDISWRAPPER------------------------
>------- When using ndiswrapper, iwconfig says, link level would constantly
> be 24. wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""
> ~          Mode:Managed  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF  Bit Rate:54Mb/s
> ~          RTS thr:1600 B   Fragment thr:2304 B
> ~          Encryption key:off
> ~          Power Management:off
> ~          Link Quality:0/100  Signal level:24/154  Noise level:0/154
> ~          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> ~          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0     No scan results
>
> -
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>
> cu,
> Flo
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