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:
- http://wiki.debian.org/WPA
- man wireless
- man iwconfig
- man iwpriv
- man iwevent
- man interfaces
- man ifup
- man ifdown
- man iwspy
- man iwlist
- view /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian
I've made the following entry in /etc/network/interfaces:
[quote]
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid MyAccessPoint
wireless-key someoldwpakey
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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