ESSID?

[emeraldgirl08]

ugh. I hate to ask such a basic question but would the ESSID in my home network be our network name?

I've found a distro for my dads 600X that at least will shutdown the 600x when you want it to. Other distros would just leave it hanging which required a manual slide of the switch on the side.

Anyhow. I need to get that wireless running and it seems I'm heading toward editing an /etc/network/interfaces file which requires my ESSID. TIA.

[killer]

AFAIK, ESSID is your network name.

[emeraldgirl08]

AFAIK, ESSID is your network name.

lol that's what I thought. Thanks

[tom lightbody]

if "wlan0" is the name of the 600x's wireless
then (as root) "iwlist wlan0 scan" will list the
ESSIDs of all nearby networks, yours included.

> auto shutdown

debian auto-shutsdown "shutdown -h now"

[emeraldgirl08]

if "wlan0" is the name of the 600x's wireless
then (as root) "iwlist wlan0 scan" will list the
ESSIDs of all nearby networks, yours included.

> auto shutdown

debian auto-shutsdown "shutdown -h now"

Tom. You're the man

That command showed me what I was asking for the last two hours in another forum.

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iwlist eth1 scan

And how did you know I was using Debian??? lol. I'm trying to get the Intel 2100 wireless going here. I already went into the nano /etc/network/interfaces and entered in some magic lines. I'm getting there but it seems a little more time will be needed here! Thanks again Tom for those commands.

[tom lightbody]

> intel 2100 wifi

in the x31 we use module "ipw2100" and
firmware "ipw2100-1.3.fw"

"iwconfig" shows the interface as eth1.

At startup I run a small script--

ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid 123
iwconfig eth1 channel 6
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
iwconfig eth1 key xxxxxxxxxx
iwconfig eth1 key open
dhclient eth1

(We use 64 bit WEP.)

[emeraldgirl08]

> intel 2100 wifi

in the x31 we use module "ipw2100" and
firmware "ipw2100-1.3.fw"

"iwconfig" shows the interface as eth1.

At startup I run a small script--

ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid 123
iwconfig eth1 channel 6
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
iwconfig eth1 key xxxxxxxxxx
iwconfig eth1 key open
dhclient eth1

(We use 64 bit WEP.)

I get two errors so far when keying those in terminal.

I get an error for channel 6, the network key, and dhclient fails. The dhclient line returns with No DHCPOFFERS received.

Definitely going to take a little more time