Try:
iwconfig eth1 essid lynksys
That should work...
Then type:
iwconfig
Alone.
You should see something like:
root@travelair:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"visionwisp11"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:19:3B:80:19:EF
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=53/100 Signal level:-65 dBm Noise level=-73 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.
tun0 no wireless extensions.
root@travelair:~#
BTW:
Be root or "sudo"
The "Association" is:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"visionwisp11"
ET
PS: If everything else fails:
iwconfig --help
:)
Robert Holtzman writes:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
>
>>>> That's "essid", not "eesid"
>> Yep...
>> I screwed up.
>> Imagine that... :)
>
> I think that was my typo, not yours. In either event the return is:
>
> unknown command "linksys"
>
>> dhclient eth1
>> won't work because you haven't associated with anything yet, that's
>> analogous to having no wired plugged in to an Ethernet.
>> No "link"...
>
> Yeah, I figured that. I tried out of curiosity.
>
>> Try again with "essid" and run iwconfig alone to verify that you are
>> associated.
>> Again, no point to dhclient if you are not associated.
>> Once associated, if dhclient grabs an IP address, your issue most likely
>> lies on the GUI configuring the wireless wrong.
>> What are you running?
>> I forgot if you mentioned it...
>
> wicd
>
>> If it doesn't grab an IP, most likely you have a miss-configured router.
>> That's assuming that you are not WEP(ing), which I didn't check for in your
>> previous messages. If you are, just turn it off until you sort this one
>> out.
>
> WPA(ing) not WEP(ing). When I first tried setting up wireless I could
> connect with encryption disabled, not enabled. This is no longer true.
> Can't connect either way.
>
> One more thing that has changed from my earlier attempts is that before
> the connection would authenticate O.K. and hang getting the IP address.
> Now hangs trying to authenticate.
>
>
>
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