I believe that if you have wireless-tools you have the executable iwconfig.
You can use iwconfig to set the SSID (as well as other parameters such as channel and key). Peter Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I attached an Actiontec USB 1.1 wireless adapter to my pc and, on > bootup, to Woody with kernel 2.4.18 the device is recognized with much > detail in dmesg. After reading the ifconfig and interfaces man > pages I was not sure how to proceed. Apt-cache search network lead > me to wireless-tools which I installed but could not find a man page > and dpkg > -p wireless-tools gives no clue as to how to use them. > > Reluctantly, I booted to Windows and ran the installation disk. With > the entry of the SSID connection to the router was successful. I > turned the transmiter off (led switches from steady to flashing) and > rebooted to debian and began checking out the files in /proc/net. At > some point I switched the transmiter back on (led steady on) so my > only problem may be how to set the SSID. > > An elementary problem I'm sure but I would appreciate any guidance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
