Wireless internet

[Janina Sajka]

Actually, unless it works differently on other distros for some reason,
a simple iwconfig should gen a report for each network device. For
instance, on my laptop I get:

#iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

irda0     no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"xxxxxxx"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=89/100  Signal level=-26 dBm  Noise level=-84 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:6690214   Missed
beacon:10

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.


Georgina Joyce writes:
> Hi
> 
> The iwconfig requires a device name.  You need to do a ifconfig -a | less to see what the device has been assigned and pass it's IP etc.  Then use iwconfig to pass keys, mode and channel etc.
> 
> Example: iwconfig wlan0 essid MyID
> 
> Gena
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Juan Hernandez
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:40 PM
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> Subject: Wireless internet
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have installed the driversand module for my wireless interface, intel
> pro/wireless 3945 abg...  I got modprobe to load it fine, but it is not
> linking to any device.  When I do iwconfig, I don't get any wireless
> devices.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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