[wellylug] iwconfig / iwlist are different

[Daniel Pittman]

E Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> writes:

> I have a netgear wireless pci card WG311.  Got to wake it up with
> ndiswrapper under Zenwalk and appears as wlan0 :-D

ndiswrapper?  Good luck; in my experience that seldom works
effectively.  Are you sure there isn't an open driver for the hardware?
Which chipset is it anyhow?

> However ....
>
> iwconfig and iwlist are giving me 2 different results >:o

Of course they are: iwlist shows you which access points are visibile,
while iwconfig shows how the card is currently configured.

> I tried to conform iwconfig with iwlist but without any success.
> (essid, protocol, access point)... nothing at ALL ...

Usually you would set the card to managed mode, then set the essid to
whatever your network was; the rest should take care of itself.

By "usually", I actually mean: most people, these days, would simply use
the tools supplied by their distribution that manage all of this
automatically; ifupdown or equivalent on your platform can probably take
care of most of it automatically.

Regards,
        Daniel