James,
iwlist scan - shows my network and my neighbords
*wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:3A:9D:D1
ESSID:"mondongo"
Mode:Master
Channel:3
Frequency:2.422 GHz
Quality=14/64 Signal level=47/65
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000005f46022be2*
I tried this command:
iwconfig wlan0 essid mondongo channel 3 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After an ifconfig, I get:
*wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:A8:CE:D8:DE
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:a8ff:fece:d8de/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1470 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:480090 (468.8 KiB) TX bytes:5080 (4.9 KiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-C0-A8-CE-D8-DE-48-5A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)*
But how do I know if the wireless communication is working?
:-)
>
> Hmmm, so lspci doesn't show it. Maybe this is one of those strange ones
> built on the usb bus for some reason. lsusb might confirm that.
>
> But if you see a rtl8187 module has been loaded, that may be a good sign.
>
> Try
>
> ifconfig -a
> iwconfig
> iwlist scan
>
> If a device (eg, eth1, maybe) seems associated with the wireless, you
> can eliminate extaneous output from the above commands by
>
> ifconfig eth1
> iwconfig eth1
> iwlist eth1 scan
>
>
> Regards,
> ..jim
>
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