Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610
Florian Kulzer wrote:
Are you entitled to access the "ASUNCION" network, or is that just a
random access point which you detect in your neighborhood?
Well, the latter option seems to be the situation... :-(
"iwconfig wlan0" should show "associated" and the hardware address of
the access point.
Here is what `iwconfig wlan0' shows, if it helps:
juanja@debian~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
If it does not then the signal might simply be too
weak. "iwlist scan" will also include access points which are of no
practical use since the link quality is too low.
Which in fact is the case, I guess.
(...) but I would be worried about the "Quality: 0/100" reading.
So that was the thing? I see....hmmm...should I check another environment....
or maybe borrow a wireless-router... ;-P
Okay, but in plain: Is it supposed I should do
iwconfig wlan0 essid <whatever_network_detected>
providing its link quality reading is something decent in order to connect?
Or should I check anything more?
Thanks a lot for helping,
Juanjavier Martínez.
Reply to: