The mystery of WiFi

[Mr.Scrooge]

--- Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/01/2008, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.
> > But I always have NM off, as it does not work with all my devices,
> > and I ran "service network restart" anyway without finding eth0.
> >
shouldn't a wireless interface come up as wlan0,ath0 not eth0? or does it depend on the driver?
iwconfig should show you something, me thinks.
> > I had brief access to the laptop last night.
> > It did bring up eth0 this time,
> > but it did not find the access point.
> >
> 
> [...]
> 
> To help you further I think we'll need more information about the
> access point )eg. what encryption scheme is being used, if any), the
> wireless card type etc.
> 
> other things you can try for information include /sbin/iwlist scan and
> /sbin/iwlconfig.
> 
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