Connecting to WiFi

fails · 10-03-2005, 07:06 AM

All is fine when only one cell appears in the scan results, but when more appear, how do I connect to one of them, from a CLI? not using any GUI wireless applcation

thanks
Dan

unSpawn · 10-04-2005, 06:32 PM

Isnt that like "iwconfig ap [MAC_address_or_name]"?

kingsidy · 10-05-2005, 03:34 PM

you do this:

iwconfig eth1 essid "name of network"
dhclient eth1

this is assuming that the interface is up. the eth1 is whatever the name of your wireless interface is.

initialdrifteg6 · 10-07-2005, 01:25 PM

and of course all of this is assuming that you have wirelelss-tools installed