Re: How to connect now that it's installed?
"Gee, David" <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:01:23 +0100
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1688090520== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050805090006070900040700" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050805090006070900040700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You're on DHCP, so you can ignore that. Run ifconfig wlan0 just to check that it has actually picked up an IP adress though. It's also useful to run iwconfig to check it's managed to connect to your access point too. Regards David Adrien Ecoffet wrote: > Hello all, > > I have installed linux-wlan-ng on my computer, and after having tried to > configure my network with iwconfig a lot of time, I looked at the README > file, and I saw that I was trying in vain because it was impossible to > configure the network directly with the wireless tools, so I followed the > instructions in the README (for usb users as I have a dlink DWL-122) > but I > don't understand the F) instruction: > >> F) Run 'ifconfig wlan0 <your IP address>' > > What is "<your IP address>", is it my router's IP adress? the IP I > want to > have in my network? probably, but my network is configured by DHCP, so > this > is the DHCP server which will decide of my IP. > And by the way, how can I use a DHCP client to connect to my router? > > Please answer, this is very problematic for me. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-wlan-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-wlan.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-wlan-user > --------------050805090006070900040700 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> You're on DHCP, so you can ignore that. Run ifconfig wlan0 just to check that it has actually picked up an IP adress though. It's also useful to run iwconfig to check it's managed to connect to your access point too.<br> <br> Regards<br> David<br> <br> Adrien Ecoffet wrote: <blockquote cite="[email protected]" type="cite">Hello all, <br> <br> I have installed linux-wlan-ng on my computer, and after having tried to <br> configure my network with iwconfig a lot of time, I looked at the README <br> file, and I saw that I was trying in vain because it was impossible to <br> configure the network directly with the wireless tools, so I followed the <br> instructions in the README (for usb users as I have a dlink DWL-122) but I <br> don't understand the F) instruction: <br> <br> <blockquote type="cite">F) Run 'ifconfig wlan0 <your IP address>' <br> </blockquote> <br> What is "<your IP address>", is it my router's IP adress? the IP I want to <br> have in my network? probably, but my network is configured by DHCP, so this <br> is the DHCP server which will decide of my IP. <br> And by the way, how can I use a DHCP client to connect to my router? <br> <br> Please answer, this is very problematic for me. <br> <br> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ Linux-wlan-user mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.linux-wlan.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-wlan-user">http://lists.linux-wlan.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-wlan-user</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------050805090006070900040700-- --===============1688090520== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Linux-wlan-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-wlan.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-wlan-user --===============1688090520==--