Re: [opensuse] Re: wlan cli

On 22/02/10 18:28, Mark Misulich wrote:

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:

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Just a couple of more facts on this. I can't connect with the traditional ifup method either, if I configure the ESSID with the name "Hyatt" and setting it to unencrypted in the graphic interface in yast.

I thought that if someone knew how to do this via command line I could get some readout that might tell me why this isn't connecting. I can get on with wind***, but not with linux. When I try to connect via kinternet, I can see that it is communicating with the router but it won't log on.

I am using kde 3.5, knetworkmanager, and opensuse 11.1.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Mark Misulich wrote:

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Hi, I am staying in a hotel and for some reason I can't connect to the internet with wireless to the hotel router using kinternet. I went back through some old posts to the mailing list and found that I can scan for the available wireless routers via command line.

I used iwlist wlan0 scan to find a list of the available wireless routers. The one that I think has the highest power provides the following information:

Cell 04 - Address: 00:03:52:A9:88:00 ESSID: "Hyatt" Protocol: IEEE802.11b Mode: Master Channel: 1 Encryption Key: Off Bit Rates: 11 Mb/s Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 Quality=86/100 Signal Level=-65dBm Noise level=-113dBm Extra: Last beacon: 181ms ago

My question is, what commands with the terminal do I use to connect to this router?

Thanks One other fact that may help others with this. I looked on google and in the opensuse mail list archive before I posted the first time this morning and tried to come up with some commands that I could use to get the wireless connected to the router via command line. I tried

dhcpcd wlan0 "Hyatt"

but didn't get anything working. So I don't know if I have the correct bash commands to initiate the wireless connection to the router.

Look at this page http://en.opensuse.org/Tracking_down_wireless_problems#How_to_set_up_a_conne... It covers manually connecting to unsecured networks. Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org