[ale] Wifi issue

[Robert Coggins]

Yeah I knew the ESSID was set correctly but it was still connecting to his
network.  That is what it showed in iwconfig...  However, after I changed
the channel on my router and in the wireless.opt file everything worked
fine..
Thanks for the input!

Rob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Knapka" <jknapka at earthlink.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Wifi issue


> Robert Coggins <ale at cogginsnet.com> writes:
>
> > OK heres the deal.
> >
> > I have a WIFI network here at home.  There is also someone else in the
> > n'hood that has WIFI.  I specify that my laptop needs to connect to my
> > ESSID however it keeps connecting to the other guys network.
>
> Are you sure that (a) you've really set your ESSID to something
> distinctive, and (b) that you've really told your laptop to
> connect to that ESSID? If you do an "iwconfig" on your
> wireless interface, what do you see?
>
> I had this exact same problem, and changing the ESSID to
> something "interesting" fixed me right up.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Joe
>
> > LOL I can
> > get on the net using his network as I see he has DSL or Cable.  But when
> > I need to transfer things to my desktop it is a no go on my LAN.  My
> > Wife's LT can connect with no problem.  He runs a linksys router  I have
> > a D-Link router.  I my wireless card is linksys and my wife's is SMC.
> > Anyone have an idea?
> >
> > Thanks all!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Robert Coggins <ale at cogginsnet.com>
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