How can i make a wireless connection in the command line?

[Mark]

that's for eth (wired). that's working fine.
wlan0 is the one that is giving me a hard time.

2007/7/5, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel at todo-linux.com>:
> On Thursday 05 July 2007 16:41:33 Mark wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > i've just spens serveral hours finding out how i can make a wireless
> > connection but nothing seems to be working.
> > i tried this
> > MANUAL:http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=HOWTO-iwlwifi than
> > starting from:  "Verify that you can scan and see access
> > points:". where it's going wrong is the key.. [1] is not working for
> > me.. i need to do s:theascikey and the last issue is that dhclient
> > doesn't want to give me an ip. it's attempting it a few times and than
> > it simply fails.
> >
> > some information you might need:
> >
> > My wlan adapter is:
> > Intel 3945AGB
> >
> > Kernel version:
> > 2.6.22 RC 7
> >
> > Operating system:
> > Fedora 7
> >
> > Desktop/Laptop:
> > Acer Aspire 5630 Notebook
> >
> > Now the issue is not that i can't make a wireless connection.. i can
> > but just once every boot. I can make a wireless connection with
> > knetworkmanager BUT when that connection is lost than i need to reboot
> > to get connection again. is there a quicker solution for that?
> > (killall knetworkmanager and restart that won't help)
> >
> > Another issue (with losing the connection) is that when my connection
> > strength is getting below 40/100 than the connection seems to be
> > lost... is there any way to put that on 10 or 20?
> >
> > Now the real issue is that i'm not able to make a wireless network
> > connection with the command line. so my question is: how do i need to
> > make a wireless connection from the begin till the end?
> >
> > When this is answered i will make a howto for it on the fedora forum.
> >
> > Thanx,
> > Mark
>
> You might need to change the ifcfg-ethX
> with something like:
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> USERCTL=no
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
> BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
> NETWORK=192.168.1.0
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> IPADDR=192.168.1.5
>
> Then
> Your /etc/sysconfig/network file would be:
>
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=foo
> GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Manuel.
>
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