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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>> As for wifi, hmm Harry, I don't quite remember of a manager program.<br>> I just use the following set of commands:<br>> # ip link set wlan0 up<br>> # iwlist wlan0 scan | less<br><br></div><div>GUI apps and CLI toolkits are generally a front end to the required commands:</div><div><br></div><div> ifconfig wlan0 up</div><div> iwlist wlan0 scan | egrep -i '(key|essid|auth)'</div><div><br></div><div>Choose the essid you want, see if it has a key and if so the auth type. If auth is as below you can connect to the net with:</div><div><br></div><div> NONE/off: <span style="font-size: 12pt; ">iwconfig wlan0 essid <wlan id></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> WEP: iwconfig wlan0 essid <wlan id> key <passphrase></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> OR if the key is passphrase rather than hex</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> WEP:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> iwconfig wlan0 essid <wlan id> key s:<passphrase></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">PSK is a bit more work, first generate a key file, then start the negotiation</span></div><div><br></div><div># wpa_password <wlan id> >~/wpa.key</div><div># reading passphrase from stdin</div><div>dafttxtstartszebrassweetgrassfeedfestcraze</div><div><br></div><div># wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c ~/wpa.key</div><div><br></div><div>Finally</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "># dhclient wlan0</span></div><div><br></div><div>And you should be good to go. You might want to bounce (down/up) the interface as doing so will force an event to start the negotiation. Do that before the dhclient.</div><div><br></div><div>You could script this especially if you generally only sign on to your home network. I travel a lot so prefer to just type it all in. Lots more fun. BTW none of this works if you have a network manager app running, they will complete for the settings and things become very frustrating/unpredictable. If your wlan0 id has spaces, '@', '-', things like that, then you will need to quote the wlan id string.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, nick.</div> </div></body>
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