Dear all, I've just installed Etch on a Thinkpad 240 and installed a Netgear WG111v3 USB WiFi adapter according to the instructions here<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/wifi-card-netgear-wg111v3-usb2.0-in-debian-4.0-615300/#post3166535>. Now I need to configure it so that it will connect to my wireless access point (a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, in case that's significant) over WPA-Personal using AES.
Suppose my access point's SSID was 'MyAccessPoint' and my WPA key was 'someoldwpakey', how would I go about doing this (without using any desktop/windowed utilities, because I don't have adesktop environment or window manager installed)? Here's how far I've got. I've read: - http://wiki.debian.org/WPA - man wireless - man iwconfig - man iwpriv - man iwevent - man interfaces - man ifup - man ifdown - man iwspy - man iwlist - view /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian I've made the following entry in /etc/network/interfaces: [quote] allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid MyAccessPoint wireless-key someoldwpakey [/quote] And if I now run 'ifup -a' then 'iwconfig' gives: [quote] lo no wireless extensions wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:1256.85 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 [/quote] Clearly, the Thinkpad isn't aware of the access point yet, so at this point, I'd be very grateful for any help you can offer! Many thanks in advance, Sam
