wireless help!

[David McGlone]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 7:21:40 am Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 06/05/2008, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 05 May 2008 11:08:16 am Nigel Ridley wrote:
> > > ... One day, from a terminal I did: sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
> > > and is if by magic, the KNetworkmanager icon turned to a 'blue 4 column
> > > bar graph' and now automatically detects available networks. Just a
> > > right click on the icon, then click on the available connection that I
> > > want to use and 'Bob's your Uncle'!
> >
> > This made me excited!  I just tried it... Didn't work. :-( LOL
>
> You might have to adapt this command slightly, worked fine for me with
> eth1 (which is my wireless port) instead of wlan0 (Nigels wireless
> port)
>
> so this turns the command into
> sudo iwlist (your wireless port) scan
>
> and, of course, to know which is the wireless port, iwconfig is your friend
> :)

Yup, I used eth1.