[ltp] Wireless things

[Alejandro Bonilla]

|On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:55:47 +0200, Alejandro Bonilla
|<abonilla@linuxwireless.org> wrote:
|
|> |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 haven't done anything, the computer did it itself.
|However, the

This is the normall behavior of the card. There is a fix on how-not-to let
the card connect at boot or on load. But...

|nic didn't come up with ifup. If that was a free wireless
|network, how am
|I supposed to connect to it?

"Wireless" doesn't look that free. It actually looks like your next-doors
Netgear AP.