wireless trouble

[amoore]

ok iam able to get my wireless card to work DWL-122 dlink usb but when i go in and try to make changes to it essid key or any thing it tells me
error for wireless request "set esside" (8b1a)
set failed on device wlan0 ; operation not supported.

any help would be great thanks.

[dlichterman]

are you doing the command #]iwconfig wlan0 essid "whatever"

you need to be root to do this. type su. then run that command

[amoore]

ok i tried the su iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
UNKNOW ID: IWCONFIG

also iam running knoppix 3.7 and even when i do the GUI and try to set the settings no luck they stay default

thanks for help.

[OErjan]

su is folowed by a username==> su username.
sudo on the other hand is folowed by a comand.==>sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
hope this helps

OErjan

[amoore]

iam still not getting it sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys

it still states set failed on device wlan0 operation not supported

thanks for help.

[pureone]

knoppix$# su
root$# iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys.

is wlan0 present in the output of ifconfig?

[amoore]

when i type in ifconfig i get
also iam able to change my IP: but when i try to change the mode:ad-hoc or encryption any of that it wont let me
thanks for help
lo link encap:local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0
up loopback running mtu:16436 metric
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overrun:0 frame:0
TX SAME carrie:0
collision:0 txqueulen:0
rx bytes:200 (200.0b) tx bytes:200 (200.0b)



wlan0 link encap:ethernet hwaddr gives my mac: addr
inet addr:10.0.0.105 bcast:10.0.0.105 mask:255.255.255.0
up brodcast running muticast mtu:1500 metric
rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overrun:0 frame:0
tx packets:75 errors:0 same same same carrie:0
collission:0 txqueuelen:1000
rx bytes:0 (0.0b) tx bytes:2700 (2.6kib)

[pureone]

when you set iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys does it say operation failed or when you do pump -i wlan0. when i do iwconfig wlan0 it normaly will show the ap at first but when i try set the encryption key it fails on me and the ap will be gone and pump -i wlan0 fails