[ltp] Wireless things

[Alejandro Bonilla]

|Yes, it's an intel 2200 (centrino). "iwconfig" says:
|
|eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Wireless"  Nickname:"badulaque"
|           Mode:Managed  Channel:1  Access Point: 00:A0:C5:9D:60:8C
|           Bit Rate=54Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
|           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
|           Encryption key:off
|           Power Management:off
|           Link Quality:44/100  Signal level:-56 dBm  Noise
|level:-256 dBm
|           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
|           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:69   Missed beacon:111

Connected to the SSID Wireless. No Encryption. Don't steel internet!

|
|
| ... but I have little or no idea about what it means. Does it
|mean I'm
|already "connected" to that access point? I guess I would need
|further
|permission to be able to use the net through that acess point,
|if I needed
|some key, how could I know that (not the key itself, but the
|fact that I
|need a key)?
|
|After a while, the light has turned off, now iwconfig says:
|
|eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"badulaque"
|           Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
|           Bit Rate=0kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
|           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
|           Encryption key:off
|           Power Management:off

Ohh, this is probably when the guy next door says " Get da hell out of this
network" :)And then he wonders off and never think on getting or installing
WEP there. :) Or you are getting a weak signal and then die.

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