[Cialug] Wireless Kubuntu

[David Champion]

In theory, if all of your parameters are set, you should be able to type 
"ifup <interface>" and it should start up.

I'm sure some of the more debian inclined can give you more pointers on 
config file locations and what not.

-dc

Todd Walton wrote:
> It works!  I got home from work this evening, and tried it out.  I had
> fiddled with iwconfig a little and set the parameters of the interface
> (key, essid, mode, so on).  Truthfully, I wasn't sure what I was
> doing, but I knew enough to do that.  Not being sure what the next
> step was, I opened up wlassistant and voila!  It connected right away,
> no fuss.  And here I am typing in Kubuntu.
>
> I think the issue may have been not configuration, but signal quality
> or something, which means it'll probably come back.
>
> So anyway, if I had a fully supported wireless card and a everything
> was working right, how would I start up wireless from the command
> line?  iwconfig to set the parameters...  Then does the card just do
> its connecting?  Or is there some command to send to the card to tell
> it connect?  I'd rather not rely on the GUI.  So... what's the
> theoretical chain of events?
>
> -todd
>
>
> On 3/19/07, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried making the connection without using encryption? On my 
>> former
>> linksys router I had to disable encryption before Mandriva would 
>> connect,
>> then I set up wep then everything worked from then on, go figure;)
>> -dh
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of David Champion
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:44 AM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wireless Kubuntu
>>
>> The Atheros driver is one of the better supported under linux - you
>> should be able to use the native driver.
>>
>> -dc
>>
>> Todd Walton wrote:
>> > On 3/18/07, Lars Althof <lars at larch.dk> wrote:
>> >> Do you know what the wireless card in the laptop is?
>> >
>> > It's actually a desktop.  It's a Belkin F5D7000, using an Atheros 
>> chipset.
>> >
>> >> source drivers don't support the -g hardware very well, so you 
>> might be
>> >> connecting at 12mbps, which  (I think) forces other computers to 
>> use the
>> >> same speed.
>> >
>> > That would be worth looking into.  I think I read something in the
>> > router's manual that indirectly implied that it could handle g at full
>> > g even with a b connected.
>> >
>> >> switching to NDIS wrapper and the windows driver fixed it
>> >> for me. If you don't know which chipset is in your laptop run 
>> lspci and
>> >> look for wireless.
>> >
>> > Oh please no, don't make me deal with ndiswrapper!
>> >
>> >> You might also think about switch to Knetworkmanager, to me it seems
>> >> much simpler to use and more stable, plus it will handle WPA.
>> >
>> > ACK.
>> >
>> > -todd
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