[WYLUG-HELP] wireless lan notebook card installation

[Shaun Laughey]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 14:10 +0000, Mike Goodman wrote:
> Thanks for the responses, folks.
> 
> There are a couple of wi-fi base stations in this building. I don't have
> access to either. However, I'd like to be able to at least "see" them
> even if I can't log on, just to show everything is working. When I get
> to the conference tomorrow it will be too late to find I can't connect!
>         
> So, I ran iwlist wlan0 scan as Shaun Laughey suggested. It came up with
> this reply:
>         
>         wlan0 Scan completed
>         Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:DF:DE:B0
>                 Mode: Managed
>                 Essid: "redmill"
>                 Encryption key: on
>                 Channel: 11
>                 Quality 59/100 Signal level:-71dBm Noise level:-192 dBm
>         
> Does this look to you as though I can expect a working connection
> tomorrow when I'm given the password and all that? The signal:noise
> ratio looks ominous to me, but then I don't know anything about it. And
> is it worth changing the channel in my settings (easy enough to do) to
> match the one I find with the iwlist command?
> 
> In a nutshell, is this progress or problems? :o)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mike

Hello Mike,

that looks good - and I would change the channel in your configuration
and you can also put their ESSID in there too it's sometimes called
Network Name - it helps.

Looks like they are using WEP so that's the bit you'll need from them
and you'll probably be up and running in no time.

( Unless they are using WPA that is... don't worry about it until you
have to )

The quality you've got isn't brilliant but it should easily give you
1mbps - good for browsing the WWW.

Shaun Laughey.