Thanks for the quick response Richard, I was trying out the various
things you said as well as a few others.
iwconfig eth0 essid "NETGEAR" successfully changed the essid, but that
was all.
There is no password on the network, I'm certain of this.
To my eyes, dmesg indicates that the card was initialized without incident.

ifconfig eth0 up gives the following:
[d:b] ~ #ifconfig eth0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
zsh:7531 exit 255    ifconfig eth0 up

I'm not sure what that means, but I went ahead and tried another
approach. From within Windoze, the wireless network is accessed without
problems, and with a Dell utility I was able to get the AP, among other
info. But when I do " iwconfig eth0 ap 00:18:4D:84:1C:8C " followed by
" iwconfig ", the AP remains unchanged from "Invalid".

Again, any/all help is greatly appreciated,
Alex


Richard Griffith wrote:
> > Alex,
>
> The part that says "Access Point: Invalid" is the point to consider. This means the
> wireless card is not talking to any access point/wireless router. Of course, why is a
> bit harder. If you have something that works on this network to look at for clues, it
> might make thing easier. Here are some things that might cause this problem.
>
> ESSID might need to be set for the conversation to get started, i.e.
> iwconfig eth0 essid "Right Name"
>
> You might need a WEP/WPA key set to be able to talk to the access point, i.e.
> iwconfig eth0 key s:password
>
> Also check with dmesg to see if there are any indications of errors while the card is
> initialized.
>
> Also, note that the command would be "ifconfig eth0 up" not "iwconfig". iwconfig sets
> the wireless specific options, ifconfig sets things on the tcp/ip level.
>
> Good luck,
> - -Richard
>
> Alex Winfield wrote:
>

>> I'm having a little trouble setting up a wireless connection.  Here's 
>> iwconfig:
>> [d:b]   ~   #iwconfig
>> lo        no wireless extensions.

>>

>> eth0        IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
>>         Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
>>         RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
>>         Encryption key:off
>>         Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
>>         Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>>         Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

>>

>> eth1        no wireless extensions.

>>
>> Elsewhere, I saw the following suggestion:
>> > iwconfig eth0 up
>> > dhcpcd
>>

>> Which gives me:
>> [d:b]   ~   #iwconfig eth0 up
>> Error   :   unrecognised wireless request "up"
>> zsh: 8041 exit 255    iwconfig eth0 up
>> [d:b]   ~   #

>>
>> Any ideas on what I should do next?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Alex
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