wifi works:how to connect to hotspot,with console?alternative to wifi-wiz assistant?
Hello
I got the drivers wifi working, after 1 - 2 hours. So iwlist iwlist scan can tell me the hotspot ok, but how make it work? is there any console linux assistant for debian testing SQUEEZE? |
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You could always try Ceni. It's part of sidux but should work just fine on Debian Squeeze.
ceni_2.5_all.deb |
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Great tool. |
I boot 20x times the xp, get few missing debs, for squeeze.
man it s long I got wifi radar working, wireless, the driver of my wifi. Ok I mean with ifconfig, I couldnt connect to the hotspot. I seems that /etc/init.d/networking restart does only hte cable eth0 restarting, not hte eth1 I was thinking kwlan, will be toooo too long i have to get all deb packages of KDE-base and libs by hand for the website package debian, to get it. I wont make it I got the kernel headers by hand too, that was pretty long ... so let's try ceni, and read a bit this page. i did wifi radar, and no way it didnt work, t i did hanged the ceni, let's hope that s my only hope I run jwm as window manager |
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since it is a hotspot, there is no WEP key, it is open, sort of. no idea how to make it as soon as i do . : iwconfig eth1 essid "hotspottown" ping www.google.com says no network |
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Then Code:
dhclient what is the output from Code:
ifconfig -a |
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iwconfig to see whether wireless works iwlist scan | grep ESS then iwconfig eth1 essid thehotspottotry do dhclient wait if you are kicked try another essid dhclient again and ping www.google.com here it is !! woowoooow i will apt-get update ; apt-get instal all I need man linux is soooooooooooooooooooooo fast compared to windows XP. Its crazy that no one using xp, realizes it. I surf at speed of light with my mini 700 compaq one has |
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