I have written a basic script that allows me to select my wired or wireless network on my laptop and if I choose the wireless it let me choose if I want encryption or not.

My laptop has a built in broadcom wireless card and I have just started using the new bcm43xx driver and it requires that I enter the ESSID of the router. Setting the ESSID to any will not work or how could I get it to work.

This is what I need, how can I get the results of "iwlist scan | grep ESSID" and enter that into "iwconfig eth1 essid" so that I will automatically connect to the local essid when I travel.

Thanks

iwconfig eth1 essid $(iwlist scan | grep ESSID)

Sometimes after I see the answer I feel so dumb.

Thanks acid_kewpie

This works well but, what I get when i run iwconfig is "ESSID:"ESSID:XXXXX"". I probably was not clear because I got just what I ask for.

What I really need is when the command "iwlist eth1 scan | grep ESSID" ir run within a script I get the result I get is "ESSID:"XXXXXX"". I need to end up with the command "iwconfig eth1 essid XXXXXXX"

Thanks

right, so use cut or something to ditch the first part