discover wireless network
Travis Fraser
travis at snowpatch.net
Fri Mar 31 14:04:45 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 14:51 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
>
> >> I'm working in a buildin with various wireless
> >> network, but, I don't know how to browse the network
> >> to connect to any wireless network.
> >> What I need to install to connect?
> >
> >
> > /sbin/iwlist scan
>
> As a matter of interest, does this work for most people?
>
> In my case, it just gives my own LAN,
> while under Windows I see several networks.
>
> I have set the ESSID and WEP key.
> Will iwlist only scan for networks with that ESSID?
>
If you have the ESSID set to something other than "any" iwlist will only
show the networks with the ESSID you have set.
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Travis Fraser <travis at snowpatch.net>
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