MA111v1 wifi

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi everybody,
Thanks for your help, this did the trick. I must say I was a bit 
surprised that I had to edit a file instead of just clicking a button. 
But this works and I'm happy... :-)

Thanks,
Søren

janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I didn't see any further replies on forum's archive, so I'll bite. :)
> 
> Quoting Søren Hauberg <soren at hauberg.org>:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>I just tried that and I get the following:
>>
>>sudo ifup wlan0
>>Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.
> 
> 
> Not sure from the previous posts, how well you know networking under linux, so
> this might way too simple, but have you checked what reads in you
> /etc/network/interfaces file?
> 
> Usually that statement means the system doesn't know what to do. There should be
> some rules for interfaces you are trying to bring up, here's mine for connecting
> wirelessly at home network:
> 
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> wireless-essid xxxxxx
> wireless-key xxxxxx
> 
> It states that whenever I issue 'sudo ifup eth1' I want to connect to a dhcp
> server which gives the client all information I need to go online. Those
> wireless rows are there to identify the correct access point, you need to
> replace those multiple 'x' letters with correct info of your access point.
> 
> 
>>sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
>>SIOCSIFFLAGS: Ingen sådan enhed
>>
>>The last is danish and means "No such device". In the networking tool in
>>the menu wlan0 is not shown :-(
> 
> 
> I have no idea whether this should give further evidence of a problem that lies
> elsewhere. I'm sorry, hopefully someone wiser will give you answers if that's
> the case.
> 
> 
>