Wireless Question

Ken Fisher kfisheredm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 20:23:12 UTC 2005


Brian Millett wrote:

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>>Hi,
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>>I have installed FC4 on a Toshiba Satellite 3000. The wireless card was
>>found and installed. It will connect to any access point that is
>>unencrypted, but I cannot find where I would enter information to
>>connect to my access point which I have encrypted.
>>
>>Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>>    
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>Well, NetworkManager does a good job for that, but a quick way to test
>is to use iwconfig as:
>
>Say the interface is wlan0, ESSID is foo, and the key is 12345 then
>
>iwconfig wlan0 essid "foo" mode Managed key 12345
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>then do:
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>dhclient
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Thanks for the lead. I found where to input the information and will be 
able to test in a couple of hours.

Ken
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