[pkg-wpa-devel] WPA connects to wrong network

[Short Steve]

Sorry, forgot to put a subject line.

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From: Short Steve <helycos at yahoo.co.uk>
To: pkg-wpa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Sent: Friday, 14 July, 2006 11:18:20 PM
Subject: [pkg-wpa-devel] (no subject)

Hello!

I've a problem with my WPA network; how can I force it to connect to my own network?

My desktop connects automatically to my neighbour's unsecure wireless network, ignoring my /etc/network/interfaces file, of which I have tried three methods of connection (wpa_supplicant-within the interfaces file or using wpa_supplicant.conf and wireless-tools).  I tried  altering the wlan0 line to read auto and manual.  In fact, I can hash out all but the first two lines in the interfaces file relating to the wlan0 connection, and it will still connect to the neighbours!  The end result is that I cannot send emails via SMTP as their ISP refuses my  connection.

My system is running Debian unstable, Linux 2.6.17 custom with ndiswrapper compiled from  source.

Thank you for your help!

Tim

tim at debian:~$ more /etc/network/interfaces

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver ndiswrapper
wpa-ssid goodview
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
 wpa-psk *******
# wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# wireless-essid goodview
# wireless-mode managed
# wireless-channel 6
# wireless-key "*******"

tim at debian:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"NETGEAR"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:B5:C3:E2:24
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:14 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-29 dBm  Noise level:-256  dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.



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