Wireless network diagnosis

[Sam Tygier]

a good set of tools are
ifconfig (shows your network connections)
iwconfig (similar, but with the wireless specific info)
ethereal (packet watcher, lets you see what happening on an network interface)


Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> My IPW2200 wireless card can't see the wireless router (a
> Linksys WRT54G). I think the card's driver may be flaky --
> it's still under development, so that's understandable --
> and I'd like to get useful debugging information to give to
> the developers. Can anyone suggest good techniques for
> extracting data that will explain to the developers why the
> card's seeing one router and not another?
>