wireless client

[Smith, Albert]

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bill Tangren
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:21 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: wireless client
> 
> I have an 802.11g (linksys WRT54G) router running here at 
> work. Until today, everyone who has wi-fi nics here run 
> either Windoze or Mac OS, and I know how to get those OS's to 
> talk to the router. [They give me their MAC address, and I 
> give them the password.]
> 
> However, today a visiting professor shows up with a laptop 
> running Linux, and he wants to connect to the LAN. As I have 
> never had any Linux computers on which to practice setting up 
> wi-fi clients, could someone point me to references I could 
> read on what programs on his Linux box will allow him to 
> connect to my wi-fi router?
> 
> I have googled, with no luck. All I have come up with was how 
> to set up a LAN using Linux. I have tried man -k too, but 
> that hasn't helped, and isn't likely to, seeing as none of my 
> boxes here have wi-fi nic cards in them.
> 
> TIA,
> Bill Tangren
> 
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Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT  
Genex Services
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