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Setting up a USB WiFi adapter from the terminal



Dear all,

I've just installed Etch on a Thinkpad 240 and installed a Netgear WG111v3 USB WiFi adapter according to the instructions here. Now I need to configure it so that it will connect to my wireless access point (a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, in case that's significant) over WPA-Personal using AES.

Suppose my access point's SSID was 'MyAccessPoint' and my WPA key was 'someoldwpakey', how would I go about doing this (without using any desktop/windowed utilities, because I don't have adesktop environment or window manager installed)?

Here's how far I've got.

I've read:
I've made the following entry in /etc/network/interfaces:

[quote]
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wireless-essid MyAccessPoint
    wireless-key someoldwpakey
[/quote]

And if I now run 'ifup -a' then 'iwconfig' gives:

[quote]
lo     no wireless extensions

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:1256.85 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
         Bit Rate:54Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
         RTS thr:2347 B    Fragment thr:2346 B
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0
[/quote]

Clearly, the Thinkpad isn't aware of the access point yet, so at this point, I'd be very grateful for any help you can offer!

Many thanks in advance,

Sam

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