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11-01-2003, 08:35 PM
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Registered: Sep 2002
Location: California
Distribution: Slackware
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Wireless issues............
Hi, I've finally found a driver for my wireless card, and I'm using the program 'switchto' to connect on my home network (so it definitely works), but I'm not really sure how to connect to a wireless network that I don't know the ip for. I tried just setting the essid in iwconfig, but that doesn't seem to do it. Help much appreciated!
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11-04-2003, 08:44 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Maryland
Distribution: Slack 9.1,10 Mandrake 10,10.1, FedCore 2,3, Mepis 2004, Knoppix 3.6,3.7, SuSE 9.1, FreeBSD 5.2
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Could be you need to set a WEP key also, you would this like so:
iwconfig devname key xxxx-xxxx-xx
you can leave out the "-"'s but to me it makes it more readable, devname is the devicename returned by iwconfig on the first line, typically eth0, eth1 or wlan0, usually all you need is the WEP key and the essid name to connect, sometimes the channel or frequency also but this seems rare.
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