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tralfas
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 Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: wireless questions |
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Im kinda new to wireless on gentoo so I have a question.
Is there a way to list the wireless networks that I am around? or is this not possible once again not very experience with this subject please educate me.
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, yes, you need to have your wifi driver properly installed and then you can run this command :
Iwlist is part of wireless-tools package.
By the way, what kind of Wifi card do you have ? |
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tralfas
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks I try that out it should test whether I configured my broadcom card properly. |
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, and if you need help, just post  |
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