[ltp] Wireless things

Allen Knutson linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:45:19 -0700 (PDT)


> eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Wireless"  Nickname:"badulaque"
> 
>  ... 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)?

Do you have a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ?
What does route -n say?
Can you ifdown eth1 , look at iwconfig; route -n , then ifup eth1 ,
and look at them and iwlist eth1 scan ?
I'm only figuring these things out myself.
								Allen K.