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iwconfig essid any iwconfig channel 2 echo "iface wlan0 inet dhcp" >> /etc/network/interfaces ifconfig wlan0 up Typing "iwconfig" with no options confirms that the settings have been honoured and also that the device seems to have a "Cell" where previously it did not. Has it picked this up from the Access Point? However, less promisingly, it reports a signal strength of zero :-( I tried the obvious and still no change. Shall I assume that it is lying and forge ahead anyway?
Check that you have set the card to managed NOT ad-hoc mode, managed means the card will look for an access points ad-hoc is where any 802.11b stuff can appear as a peer node, thats where the cell address come in. Some drivers/hardware does not support signal strength monitoring anyway. Also check that initaly WEP is off at both ends (until everything is working at least) and check that there are no access restrictions on the acces point such as MAC address filtering etc.
I gather that I need to set a "route" via the wi-fi interface. This is what I currently have: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 I'm guessing that I should be aiming for something very similar for wlan0. Would it be possible to have both routes, so that it only uses wireless if eth0 is unplugged?
yes you need to set up the interface with ifconfig or ifcfg etc, this info should eventualy go in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0. Note sure how to set up so that wlan0 appears as a fall back if eth0 is not there. there are lots of up down scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ so each interface can do what it needs to do, may be a bit of hacing in here? Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.