Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 23:39:26 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> > status 0
> bssid=00:8e:f2:8f:58:58
> freq=0
> ssid=NETGEAR08
> id=0
> mode=station
> pairwise_cipher=CCMP
> group_cipher=CCMP
> key_mgmt=WPA2-PSK
> wpa_state=COMPLETED
> address=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> uuid=<string-of-numbers>

You have a fully functional wireless card. It has authenticated and
associated with the access point. Association can be confirmed with
iwconfig.

If you have physical access (and only if you have) to the machine
bring down the wired connection with

  ifdown -v eth0

Check with

  route -n

Now obtain an IP address for the wlan0 interface with

  dhclient -v wlan0

The wireless connection lasts as long as the machine is not powered
off or rebooted.