I tried setting up wireless network on my linux laptop..partitioned with windows too ! Initially, I struggled and then after "Googling", I finally setup the network and it was actually great. It's because the network access was not pretty good on windows.....so on Linux, it was great experience !
After few days, I made again a mistake to change the channel of the ESSID [wireless network ID on linux] and network stopped working on Linux :(
Now the problem was to identify the wireless networks available because I felt, Linux didn't have good gui interface to show the available wireless networks...so tried finding out ways to do so....and again "Googling" helped me. Here are some of the tricks/tools which helps for the same....it's for sure for me.....and for all who face troubles !
$ iwconfig
Show the various ethernet and other interfaces, associated wireless network.
$ iwlist eth1 scan
It shows all the wireless networks available to connect. 'eth1' is the interface
identified from the previous command [associated to wireless network]
$ dhclient
A very useful utility for dhcp clients tracing.
No comments:
Post a Comment