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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