Brett Parker wrote:
On 17 Apr 12:09, Anthony Anson wrote:
Have Squeeze on the laptop now, but I can't suss the wireless
/snip/
What desktop?
Gnome
Because I've never used "Preferences/network connections" before - I've got a laptop running squeeze sitting infront of me at the moment, and I'm currently using network manager for network connections...
I'll have to find somewhere with a signal - any that appear here are generally evenings and weekends, and are locked.
Have you got the network manager applet loaded? Should look like 2 computer screens, or a small bar graph if it's connected. Click on that to get a list of available wireless access points.
AFAICR, yes.
Also, maybe you haven't actually got the wireless card enabled - is there a hardware switch on the laptop to enable/disable it?
There is, and it lights. (It doesn't when it's not enabled.)
If you've not got network manager installed, then:
apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnomeTo start the applet: nm-applet&
From there on everything should be simples!
<two positives never make a negative>
Yeah, right.
<negative>
If you don't want to use network manager, then you'll be needing to setup another method - depending on the type of wireless encryption in use this is either very simples or a little annoying - WEP is simples, WPA is slightly more tricky (well, not entirely).
I only know those as abbreviations, but not of what...
If you want to try it through ifupdown, then add something to the /etc/network/interfaces file like:
--- For WEP --- iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid "The Essid" wireless-key "The Key" wireless-mode managed
--- For WPA --- iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid "The Essid" wpa-psk "The shared passphrase"
Those assume that your wireless interface is wlan0, and that you only want to configure it for one particular wireless network - network mangler is a bit better about this, otherwise you can make a wpa_supplicant.conf and set up roaming mode so that wpa_supplicant handles the moving around, or you can set up a mapping script and a bunch of 'virtual' interfaces with the right options.
Hope that helps,
Well... it probably would have done had I been paying attention when I ought to have been, all those years ago when Linux was emerging from Unix, and I was using FT at work.
Anyone seen my duster? Now I shall have to get out a pile of books and do some genuine study.
Thanks, it's given me something to work on. I'll play with Notwork Mangler next time I go to Norwich - possibly tomorrow.