How can i make a wireless connection in the command line?
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Jul 15 11:44:09 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen wrote:
> I reported what seemed to be against what you were saying. I am not
> going to talk wireless extentions because I have no idea what that is.
> As I say ifconfig has data on the performance of the wifi on my laptop.
> PERIOD!
Why don't you just post the output on your computer
of ifconfig and iwconfig?
Here's mine.
As you will see, the information is completely different.
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[tim at carrie tim]$ ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:00:16:2A:EA
inet addr:192.168.2.4 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:ff:fe16:2aea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:34213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21916 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33286696 (31.7 MiB) TX bytes:3762416 (3.5 MiB)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x2000 Memory:90301000-90301fff
[tim at carrie tim]$ iwconfig
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"dd-wrt" Nickname:"carrie"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:DA:56:B4
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=61/100 Signal level=-64 dBm Noise level=-88 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:3 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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Timothy Murphy
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