Which wireless ?

[deep_dive]

Hi all.

First post here.

Ok, I am moving to Kubuntu after months of thoughtful thinking.
My initial experience was sort of common (=awesome) as the distro installed and run out of the box in my Asus laptop.

I have a secured wireless router at home and dozens of unsecured
neighbours. Kubuntu must have picked one of them but I am not
100% sure. Is there any way to know which connection kubuntu
is using ? (Windows and OSX show the router names)

Other than that, no problems so far...sound, graphics, etc all good to go.

Thank you and happy fireworks.

S.

[marble]

Re: Which wireless ?

Open a Konsole, and type:

iwconfig eth0

(Assuming eth0 is your wireless card).
The ESSID should be listed there. There's probably also a graphical way to do this, but I usually just use the command line for networking stuff.

[timonoj]

Re: Which wireless ?

Does it work that easy for WPA protected Wi-Fi?

[deep_dive]

Re: Which wireless ?

Thanks for the posts.

Yes, the command shows that kubuntu picked
the strongest signal (that's not from my old router)
and I will fix that.

There are lots of unsecured routers out here and
I have no idea how this people do not care about
security...

I hope I will not have trouble re-configuring my
connection...

Txs,

S.

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eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys_SES_2027"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:14:BF:28:1DE
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=53/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-89 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:6

[fadetoblack]

Re: Which wireless ?

run wlassistant, it shows a list of available networks

if it's not installed then do
sudo apt-get install wlassistant