[ltp] Wireless things

[Mauro Maroni]

Yes, your card is transmitting 20 dBm of power and it has an access 
point available. You are connected at layer 2. 

Unload the module if you do not want to use that card.

Rgds.
Mauro



On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-15] Ignacio Fernández Galván wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:12:16 +0200, Alejandro Bonilla  
> <abonilla@linuxwireless.org> wrote:
> 
> > You will need to look into what card your system is using.
> > Normally the lights says that there is an association. I don't think it
> > turns on when there is no activity.
> > What wireless card is it? an intel IPW card (2200) or is it other brand  
> > or what?
> >
> > Your card is probably already getting associated with an open network.
> >
> > check #iwconfig
> 
> 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
> 
> 
>  ... 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
>