yet another wireless question

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Here we go

To start off kwifimanager turns off my wireless card and it won't turn on again until I reboot. That is a seperate issue I think but ask me for more information on that if you think it is important.

I also intalled wifi-radar but that only seems to d the same as "iwlist scan" and doesn't allow me to pick one of the networks and connect to it.

OK so from the command line or (or rather Konsole):

$ sudo iwconfig eth1 essid XXXXXXXX

Seems to connect me... sort-of.

Here is what I get when I enter iwconfig

lo    no wireless extensions.

eth0   no wireless extensions.

eth1   IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Aston-General-Access"
     Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:17:0F:E7:75:70
     Bit Rate:18 Mb/s  Tx-Power:15 dBm
     Retry limit:15  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
     Power Management:off
     Link Quality=45/100 Signal level=-85 dBm Noise level=-86 dBm
     Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
     Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:287  Missed beacon:0

So I do have an access point and am displaying a connection speed of about 15Mb/s. However no applications seem to be able to connect. Is it just that I have a signal/noise ratio of only 10. My ethernet connection works fine. I'll try in a different location later?

entering ifconfig gives the following

eth0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:60:B8:CC:CB
     UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
     RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
     RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
     Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc400

eth1   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:D2:A0:7C:00
     inet6 addr: fe80::219:d2ff:fea0:7c00/64 Scope:Link
     UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
     RX packets:13 errors:5 dropped:302 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
     RX bytes:1172 (1.1 KB) TX bytes:464 (464.0 b)
     Interrupt:17 Base address:0x6000 Memory:fbeff000-fbefffff

lo    Link encap:Local Loopback
     inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
     inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
     UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
     RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
     RX bytes:5104 (4.9 KB) TX bytes:5104 (4.9 KB)

Should I be concerned that my wireless card "eth1" is listed as "Link encap:Ethernet" ?

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Re: yet another wireless question

The problem wasn't the signal quality so any help out there guys...