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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Friday, February 9, 2007 10:27:57 am | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 9 | Last edited on Sunday, July 16, 2006 3:00:31 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@
This shows the [MAC] address of any remote wireless access points (or peers if in AdHoc mode?).
Apparently the "__<tt>iwlist ... ap</tt>__" command is obsolete, and the
better command is "__<tt>iwlist ''eth2'' scanning</tt>__", which gives its output in the different format.
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+On some network cards you need to issue the above scanning command to get the card to associate. e.g. Current driver for Broadcom 4306
!Troubleshooting
If your wireless card can't find anything to connect to, you won't get
very far.
@@ -213,7 +215,8 @@
# comment out the above line and uncomment the following line:
# pre-up iwconfig eth2 essid ''MY_SSID' key s:abcdefghijklm
</verbatim>
+Any of the commands mentioned in this page can be added to the above file in Debian/Ubuntu with the word up before it to automatically do this after the card is initialised or pre-up if before the card is initialised.
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CategoryWireless, CategoryNotes
