I searched a.o.l.s in Google and didn't see any mention of this problem.

The config script has the following code at the beginning:

case "$HWADDR" in

## NOTE : Comment out the following five lines to activate the samples
below ...
## --------- START SECTION TO REMOVE -----------
## Pick up any Access Point, should work on most 802.11 cards
*)
INFO="Any ESSID"
ESSID="any"
;;
## ---------- END SECTION TO REMOVE ------------


$HWADDR is the MAC address of your wireless interface. It's determined
in rc.wireless. Later on in the script, you have entries such as:

# Old Lucent Wavelan
08:00:0E:*)
INFO="Wavelan example (Lucent default settings)"
NWID="0100"
MODE="Ad-Hoc"
FREQ="2.425G"
KEY="off"
;;


However, anything you set in the appropriate section of rc.wireless.conf
for your card is not set when you run /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless <interface>.
The case statement never gets very far because the first '*)' matches
everything. I testing this by adding a number of `echo` commands to the
script.

The fix: Commment out the first section:
#*)
# INFO="Any ESSID"
# ESSID="any"
# ;;

I'd normally say that moving that section to the end of the script would
also fix the problem, but there's another *) selection at the end.

dentonj

## NOTE : Comment out the following five lines to activate the samples
below ...

Nevermind, just ignore me.

dentonj

dentonj1,
Maybe this could have been useful:

http://www.edafe.org/slack.html#wireless

Regards,
Edafe

dentonj1 wrote:
> ## NOTE : Comment out the following five lines to activate the samples
> below ...
>
> Nevermind, just ignore me.
>
> dentonj