On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 16:20, Bill Tangren wrote:
I have an 802.11g (linksys WRT54G) router running here at work. Until
today, everyone who has wi-fi nics here run either Windoze or Mac OS,
and I know how to get those OS's to talk to the router. [They give me
their MAC address, and I give them the password.]
However, today a visiting professor shows up with a laptop running
Linux, and he wants to connect to the LAN. As I have never had any Linux
computers on which to practice setting up wi-fi clients, could someone
point me to references I could read on what programs on his Linux box
will allow him to connect to my wi-fi router?
I have googled, with no luck. All I have come up with was how to set up
a LAN using Linux. I have tried man -k too, but that hasn't helped, and
isn't likely to, seeing as none of my boxes here have wi-fi nic cards in
them.
TIA,
Bill Tangren
Wayne Betts wrote:
> Since you posted on a redhat-list, you might try redhat-config-network
> or system-config-network as root. But that's not the traditional Linux
> way... :-)
>
> If comfortable and permitted at Linux command line as root
> then you can really sink your teeth into this:
>
> First, "man iwconfig". With the iwconfig command you have good control
> over what's happening, assuming
>
> 1. you know a bit about wireless networking (which you probably do)
> 2. the Wireless NIC is supported in the linux distribution he's using
> (maybe - if not it can get pretty hectic, even for linux gurus and
> requiring more than this simple post will provide :-(.) Here's where I
> got started a couple of years ago:
>
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
>
> Combine iwconfig with ipconfig (man ipconfig), route (man route) and the
> dhcp client (if using dhcp), and you can do wonders. (several different
> dhcp clients have been used in the last few years of Redhat/Fedora
> release: dhclient, pump or dhcpcd, so you may need to figure out which
> one(s) you have and the basic usage).
>
> If you try from the command line with iwconfig, but can't get it to
> associate and get an address using the dhcp client, then any
> user-friendly (aka GUI) configuration routine that you might hope to use
> will probably also fail. I've wasted a lot of time in those GUIs that
> could have been replaced by only a few seconds or minutes at the command
> line.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Wayne
>
>
Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.
Bill
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