Wireless laptop configuration problem

kleeman ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Mon Aug 1 14:14:49 UTC 2005


Wireless is still fairly primitive in linux. Hopefully this will change
in the next Ubuntu release (breezy). In the meantime I have found it
more useful to use cli commands from the wireless-tools package. In
particular iwconfig is very useful (as is the more general ifconfig).
In your case it looks like the madwifi driver is being used and is
close to working. What do the following commands give:



sudo dmesg | grep ath



ifconfig



iwconfig



sudo dhclient ath0



I recommend doing all this without eth0 connected...


-- 
kleeman




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