Have Squeeze on the laptop now, but I can't suss the wireless connection - I know it works because it did last night, but with an experienced pilot. I am away on the other side of the country this weekend and thought it would be nice to use a screen I can see easily. The Eee's connection is easy - it detects and flags-up any wireless within reach, and you can then highlight it and enter the key (if required), then Bob's yer uncle. I've opened 'Preferences/network connections, added a connection and put in its name, and 'applied' it, but can get no forrarder - nothing's asked me for the key. Any kind Alugger able to provide a step-by-step list of destructions, pretty please? -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
Anthony Anson wrote:
I've opened 'Preferences/network connections, added a connection and put in its name, and 'applied' it, but can get no forrarder - nothing's asked me for the key.
Any kind Alugger able to provide a step-by-step list of destructions, pretty please?
Oh dear. It just worked for me on my laptop (I think it's some sort of Asus but I don't have it here with me just now), so if you've all the appropriate network-manager packages installed, you might be looking for specific instructions (including firmware, perhaps) for your hardware. Good luck! -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/
On 17 Apr 12:09, Anthony Anson wrote:
Have Squeeze on the laptop now, but I can't suss the wireless connection - I know it works because it did last night, but with an experienced pilot.
I am away on the other side of the country this weekend and thought it would be nice to use a screen I can see easily. The Eee's connection is easy - it detects and flags-up any wireless within reach, and you can then highlight it and enter the key (if required), then Bob's yer uncle.
I've opened 'Preferences/network connections, added a connection and put in its name, and 'applied' it, but can get no forrarder - nothing's asked me for the key.
What desktop? 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... 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. Also, maybe you haven't actually got the wireless card enabled - is there a hardware switch on the laptop to enable/disable it? If you've not got network manager installed, then: apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome To start the applet: nm-applet&
From there on everything should be simples!
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). 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, -- Brett Parker
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-gnome
To 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. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
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