On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, >
Hi Dan > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > X I would prefer to manage wifi connections through the cli. > I'm using Debian Lenny with wicd. There's the command 'wicd-curses', which I believe is in it's own package (wicd-curses?) for newer versions of wicd. > I believe I have to use wpasupplicant. Can someone point me to a howto > that gives me a few examples of the wpasupplicant config and interfacing > it with /etc/network/interfaces. > I have no experience with using wpasupplicant so can't help you there, sorry... > I would like my setup to automatically connect to open networks. It > should connect to the one with the strongest signal. If that fails then > it should connect to any wpa networks if they are in range. I would like > some examples, so I can learn how to tweak the config quickly. > can't help you with that either, sorry again > Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm using the asus eeepc 1008ha and > debian squeeze if that matters. > Hope that helps > Cheers, > Dan > Cheerio Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100226161226.ga16...@sebi.r00t.la
