[TriLUG] Help! Wireless problems

[Ian Meyer]

can you try to get onto his WAP and turn on MAC filtering for your own 
address?

just a thought, and probably an ill-conceived one that that, but hey, 
its worth a shot, isnt it?

ian


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 22:10, Matt Matthews wrote:

> Apparently my neighbors have a WAP and my laptop is now connecting to 
> it
> instead of the one in my back room. I cannot figure out how to tell my
> laptop to ignore the other access point. When I try iwconfig to set
> things like the access point or frequency/channel, I get messages that
> it can't be done. Example:
>
> [root at laptop root]# iwconfig eth1 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
>     SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
>
> (in the above, the MAC has been obscured)
>
> The laptop is a Dell Latitude C640 with built-in wireless using the
> orinoco_cs module. Kernel is 2.4.20-13.9 (Red Hat, obviously) and
> wireless-tools is version 25-8.
>
> I have an SMC Barricade WAP. I can set the channel or the SSID or try
> encryption, but up until now I've not had a problem. (I use MAC
> filtering on my own WAP, so I don't think this guy can get on mine by
> accident.)
>
> If anyone can help me fix this I'd be right appreciative. I'd rather 
> not
> have to bother the neighbor if possible. Feel free to email me 
> directly,
> if this is less of a Linux problem and more of a wireless/networking
> problem.
>
> Thanks!
> matt
>
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