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peter wrote:
> Hi Rob
>
> I have done the following:
>
> I edited /etc/network/interfaces by adding
>
> auto ra0
> iface ra0 inet dhcp
>
> peteruhp@peteruhp-desktop:~$ sudo iwconfig ra0 ESSID belkin54g
> peteruhp@peteruhp-desktop:~$ sudo iwconfig ra0 channel 11
> peteruhp@peteruhp-desktop:~$ sudo dhclient ra0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
> Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>
> Listening on LPF/ra0/00:0e:2e:bc:82:a9
> Sending on LPF/ra0/00:0e:2e:bc:82:a9
> Sending on Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
> DHCPREQUEST on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
> bound to 192.168.0.3 -- renewal in 33382 seconds.
> peteruhp@peteruhp-desktop:~$
>
Umm, you got a dhcp lease that means you had a wireless connection
functioning. I would suggest not doing another scan after this.
To make it fully automatic add your iwconfig commands to
/etc/network/interfaces
so it looks something like
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
WIRELESS_ESSID belkin54g
WIRELESS_CHANNEL 11
you can add encryption commands in there later as well when its working,
if you want to use WPA then you will need wpa_supplicant installed and I
can't for the life of me remember the status of that with rt61 ( i
really should know!). If you want specific advice on that have a look on
the forum at http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
Robin
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http://www.byteme.org.uk
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