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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
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Subject: WiFi / ESSID and wi0
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I"m attending a conference on Monday where they are providing  
wireless acess points.  Their instructions include:

"You will need to use a WiFi wireless network device, choose 'DMTF' as 
the ESSID (Extended Service Set ID) and be configured to use DHCP 
with no encryption."

The DHCP bit I can configure.

I have an Orinoco Silver card from Lucent technologies (and it has WiFi) 
printed on it.  Looking at man wicontrol, I see:

     -i iface -q SSID
                 Specify the name of an IBSS (SSID) to create on a given in-
                 terface.  The SSID can be any text string up to 30 characters
                 long.

                 Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes only:
                 enabling the creation of an IBSS on a host system doesn't    
                 appear to actually work.

So can I use SSID instead of ESSID?  I also have a gold card if that 
makes much difference.

thanks.

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Dan Langille
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