Dne, 01. 11. 2009 19:31:50 je Foss User napisal(a): > > 5. Right clicked the network icon in gnome panel and selected Edit > Connections, went to Wireless tab and clicked Add. Entered SSID, > selected Mode as Infrastructure, left the BSSID field blank, copied > MAC address from the output of ifconfig wlan0, left MTU to > 'Automatic'. > > 6. Next went to 'Wireless Security' tab, selected 'WPA & WPA2 > personal' and entered the WPA2 key I previously configured in the > wireless router. > > On pressing 'Apply' button, it automatically started connecting and > successfully connected. > > I have a question to the experts though. In step 5 and 6, I had to > manually configure wlan0. However, I never had to do such > configuration for eth1 when I was using Ethernet. Why so? >
Because you should have LEFT-clicked the network icon instead of right- clicking it. From there, you should have simply selected the right ESSID and followed the prompts ... Sometimes, things are simpler than we think. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
