[Cialug] laptop wifi

[Barry Von Ahsen]

does it work from the command line?

iwconfig wlan0 essid <<ap name>>
dhclient wlan0



-barry




On 2/7/2012 7:38 AM, chris rheinherren wrote:
> i was wondering if there was any kind of a work around that didn't involve
> upgrading. since i am using the LTS version, i would prefer to keep using
> that version and only upgrade every few years instead of every 6 months.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 22:31, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, chris rheinherren wrote:
>>
>>> i have a perplexing problem with my latop.
>>>
>>> i an running ubuntu 10.04 LTS. i can connect to my home network just
>> fine.
>>> but i am unable to connect to any other wifi connection. even ones that
>> are
>>> completely open, such as those public networks at coffee shops and the
>>> like. the computer will see the wifi connection but we asked to connect
>> to
>>> it. it does not.
>>>
>> Had the same problem with a Broadcom chipset - the unit would connect all
>> day long to a secure AP, but it refused to connect to a unsecure AP
>> without REBOOTING!!
>>
>> Get yourself an upgrade; 11.10 works fine in my case.
>>
>>        Lee
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