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Originally Posted by rkelsen
Step 4. # ifconfig wlan0 (or ath0) up
Step 5. # iwconfig wlan0 (or ath0) essid xxxxxx (the ESSID of the router you wish to access)
Step 6. # dhcpcd (or dhclient) wlan0 (or ath0)
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You forgot step 4.5: "# iwlist wlan0 scanning" to tell you what ESSID you should use in Step 5. If you always know what ESSID you need to connect to, you can just skip to step 5, but if you're on the road or at a family member's house you won't always know the ESSID.
And what would be wrong with with a nice gui to do those steps for you? It could even be NCURSES based so it would feel like netconfig and pkgtool. I shall call my hypothetical ncurses GUI......."wireless connect":
1) Set up wireless-connect.conf with your correct driver commands.
2) Invoke wireless-connect (from a terminal if it gives you the warm fuzzies)
3) Wireless-connect runs steps 1 - 4.5 and reports the available ESSIDs in a menu list.
4) Choose the appropriate ESSID and wireless-connect runs steps 5 - 6.
Cheers,
Pat
