[Wolves] Acer Laptop and wireless connection

[Mo Awkati]

Thanks Peter, I'll give it a go. I have been trawling the net not much success, but I'll give SuSE a go.

Cheers

Mo

Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote: On Sunday 27 August 2006 15:51, Peter Cannon wrote:

Mo. There are some snippets on the suse-e mailing list try using iwconfig 
instead of the usual ifconfig

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>in fact, ifconfig won't show you what you are looking
>for in terms of WiFi devices... try iwconfig instead.
>
>Once the wireless device has been configured it will
>appear when you issue a normal ifconfig from the
>command line.
>
>As a suggestion: try wlassistant :-)
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Regards
Peter Cannon
"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"

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