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

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sun Jul 15 15:30:17 UTC 2007


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.
> ---------------------------------------
> [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
> ---------------------------------------
>
>   
    I can do that and will. I have to do it on my laptop, save in a file 
and then get here to this computer and in a message. It is harder than 
it sounds. You do #ifconfig as root so that has to be fixed.

Karl




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