Re: Wireless............
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:31:21 -0800
Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:05:31 pm Charlie wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0100
> >
> > Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> > > Try wicd, it is a great gui-tool to easily connect to wireless
> > > networks.
> > >
> > > Sjoerd
> >
> > Thanks for that Sjoerd.
> >
> > Even when the wireless connection didn't have a password wicd
> > couldn't find it and windows sees four wireless networks. Wicd was
> > my first thought because I run fvwm. After the wireless connection
> > had a password, it couldn't find it or any other either? [laughing]
> >
> > I'll keep trying.
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestion.
> > Charlie
>
> 'wicd' uses wireless-tools, afaik, so just us wireless-tools
> directly. The command 'iwlist ethX scanning' will find all AP in
> ranges, even those whose 'essid' broadcast is turned off.
>
> Not sure how to pass authentication via the cli, one of the
> wireless-tools and option does this.
Thanks Greg,
That's the way I'm going.
Be well,
Charlie
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