Hiya all cryptoniks here again LMAO!
all is going smoothly but i have hit my first issue. however I am sure its a small one
I have installed the latest ndiswrapper source with no issues on slackware 10.2
Current Kernel is 2.4.31
lspci see's the card just fine and i was able to determine which driver and .INF file to use
basically everything has gone perfectly word for word from the wiki instalation notes
up to the point of setting my ESSID
my access point is broadcasting perfectly as it can be seen just fine with
iwlist wlan0 scan
then i do
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted XXXXXXXX (where x is replaced with my WEP key)
the command goes through with no errors
I then did a
iwconfig wlan0 essid myaccesspointhere
again the command goes through with no errors
however here is where we run into trouble
i do a iwconfig wlan0 and the output shows my WEP key but the the AP still has an ESSID output of off/any where as it should read myaccesspointhere
for those that may think im pulling an uber noob move myaccesspoint is just a fillername for thepurpose of this post
I have confirmed that my Access point IS broadcasting in ESSID as the output clearly shows this
so first question do MAC address's change on different OS's the MAC programed into my AP is the same one i put in months ago when i was pure win and is working as we speak (hehe thank god i went dual boot lol)
may be a silly question but my understanding is that MAC address's are pretty much hard coded into the hardware correct?
so anybody else ever run accross this problem if so let me know.
im going to boot back into linux and try a couple of other things ive just found via google and the faq but if that doesnt work ill be back to check this thread =)
Thank you in advance!
Linux Phwns!