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| How to set up wireless from the command line (this assums wlan0 is your wireless card):
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| * log in as root
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| su
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| * Enable the wireless card
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| ifconfig wlan0 up
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| * Back up your wpa_supplicant config file
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| cp /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.back
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| * Edit your wpa_supplicatnt.conf to remove all but one 'network' block (or leave a couple if you're going to connect to more than one network)
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| vi /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
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| * Edit that 'network' block with the appropriate information for your router then save and exit the file
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| * Connect to your wireless network
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| iwconfig wlan0 essid <ssid>
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| * Authenticate yourself on the network
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| wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
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| * Check your wireless card
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| iwconfig wlan0
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| * verify that the SSID is <Your Router>
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| * wait 10 seconds
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| * Request an IP address from your router
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| dhcpcd wlan0
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| * Check to see that you have a valid IP address for wlan0
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| ifconfig
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| * Log off root
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| exit
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| Note: Although this should work, it may require hours of frustration with little explanation of why things are not working. I recently talked my friend through this over the phone and it took about 3 hours all together, and that was after I had already spent a couple of hours setting it up on a different network to make sure it was working.
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| References:
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| [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa_supplicant]
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| [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#Manual_setup]
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| [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Autowifi]
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| [[Category:Tutorials]] | |
