[ubuntu-uk] Intel PRO 3945BG Wireless card under Dapper

[Albert Vilella]

Instead of using the network configuration GUI, I find myself a lot of
times doing this on a terminal:

iwlist eth1 scan
sudo iwconfig eth1 essid "myessid"
sudo dhclient eth1

Cheers,

    Albert.

On 9/22/06, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 22:55 +0100, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
> > I have tried Wireless Assistant and Networking (under the Admin menu)
> > but neither with any success. I'm trying to connect to a WEP network
> > and the card sees it OK (at least it shows its ESSID) but I can't
> > configure it to actually connect. I've even tried turning off
> > encryption without any success.
> >
> > Can one of you chaps point me in the right direction with regards to
> > the setup procedure, or alternative configuration application?
>
> How
about Network Manager [0]? It's pretty good for machines that roam
> around between different wireless networks. It's not perfect, but it
> works for me. The configuration and use is pretty easy and when it's
> working it does everything pretty much automatically.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
> [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/NetworkManager
>
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