On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, at 3:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was just issued a wireless card at work ... I want this thing to work
under Linux. Any ideas?
The iwconfig(8) command lets you fiddle with the wireless parameters. It
is part of the wireless-tools package on my Red Hat 7.3 system,
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:43:30 EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ask your network dudes:
- Are they using 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, or Something Else(TM). I'm
pretty sure the card you describe is 11b only, but let's be sure.
11b.
- What is the SSID?
Don't know, they
- Are you using WEP (Worthless Encryption Protocol, AKA Wireless
Equivalent Privacy)? If so, what is the key?
Yes, and see above :(
Well, if WEP was any good, that would be a problem. Fortunately,
however,
WEP sucks. Get the right software, and you should be able to crack the key
in
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:24:25 EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 11:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It really depends on the version of WEP.. Cisco has WEP with some of it's
own stuff and that makes it work rather well ...
Yah, basically, Cisco has an
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And speaking of Cisco and Wireless, /. just posted a story stating
that Cisco is about to by Linksys for ~$500M !
And amazingly - my WAP just stopped working... coincidence?!
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Hi all,
I was just issued a wireless card at work. Of course, IS only
support Windows (actually, they only support W2K, so people with XP
are SOL :)
Fortunately, I left my laptop as a dual-boot, with W2K, which allowed
the IS person to install the card. Of course, now I want this thing
to
some vcc thing.
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Hi all,
I was just issued a wireless card at work. Of course, IS only
support
