Re: Need help setting up wireless LAN on Debian

First of there is a new command you need to know about.... it is
iwconfig. This will allow you to tell your wireless card what network
you want to connect to by designating an essid. Check out the manpage
on that one.

If your home wireless network has essid "home" you would do something like:

# iwconfig wlan0 essid home

There is a file that you can specify this in ... not to mention a few
new GUI interfaces that set this sort of thing for you now a days. But
I can't remember what off the top of my head and must go to work now.

But the iwconfig command is all you need to know to set it once (just
like ifconfig ... it will set it once, but if you want it to do it
automatically you have to edit a file somewhere).

Good luck

Austin

Mark Phillips wrote:
> Can someone help me set up my wireless LAN card on my laptop? My laptop
> has a built-in Ethernet port and my wireless card is pcmcia.
>
> I can get the card to work - the lights flash and I can get my dhcp
> server to give it an address. I need help in two areas - (1) once the
> card is up and has an address how do I make it the Ethernet connection
> used by other programs and (2) how do I make the system automatically
> load the card?
>
> I can get the card working with:
>
> modprobe ndiswrapper
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> dhclient wlan0
>
> Now, when I run ifconfig I get wlan0 with a valid Ethernet address on my
> network. However, I have a built in eth0 so that is always the default
> network connection.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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