close to a wireless connection newbie

Jan Brosius jan.brosius at skynet.be
Fri Jan 4 19:00:29 UTC 2008


David G. Mackay wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 22:55 +0100, Jan Brosius wrote:
>   
>>     
>> Is there any way to give username and password  to device wlan,
>>     
>
> No, but you shouldn't need to do that.  Are you connecting to a wireless
> router which is connected to the dsl line?  If so, you generally enter
> the username and password information into the router.  Most of the dsl
> modems and/or routers have an http interface that you can use to
> configure them.  If you give us a router type, we might be able to help
> more.
>
> Dave
>
>
>   
Many thanks for your help. I went to the website of my router seller and 
ISP and thanks to your explanation I began to understand a bit more.
Now I have a working wireless connection with Fedora 8.

Also many thanks to all people who were patient enough to give help

Jan




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