The wireless cards are becoming better recognized and often just walk directly. The wifi is configured with iwconfig, which belongs to package wireless-tools.
- Under debian, this package is not present by default To install:
Code:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude install wireless-tools
- Otherwise, note the address for packages that aptitude tries to download, collect them (for example in a system or Wi-Fi works) and put them in / var / cache / apt / archives. Then run the command:udo aptitude install wireless-tools.
- Let us list now available maps. On laptops, make sure the switch on the wireless card is enabled (the LED should be lit even if Linux does not mean that much):
Code:
no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID: "xxxxx" Nickname: ""
Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.412 GHz Access Point: xx: xx: xx: xx: xx: xx
Bit Rate = 48 Mb / s Tx-Power = 27 dBm
Retry min limit: 7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr = 2346 B
Power Management: off
Link Quality = 57/100 Signal level =- 74 dBm Noise level =- 96 dBm
Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid NWID: 0 0 Rx invalid frag: 0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc: 0 Missed beacon: 0
In this case all goes well, a wireless card named eth1 was found. Depending on the machine and the mark, the card can be called differently (eth2, wlan0, ra0, ...), the only thing that matters is what appears in iwconfig. If the card does not appear in iwconfig is that the card is not supported.
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