Instructions on how to associate with an AccessPoint under your operating system. Warning, this is currently a work in progress, and very much incomplete. --ForrestEnglish

Windows

Windows 98, ME and 2000 each use applications shipped with your card that you should install and use. I will fill each of these out as I have time and cards

Lucent / Orinoco / Wavelan

Linux

You should be able to define what network your pcmcia card connects to in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, however some cards firmeware ignores this. Listed below are some commands that will allow you to change network association.

BRBR Connect to a standard InfastructureMode access point:

iwconfig mode managed essid network_to_associate_with

If you want to connect to a WEP network, you will have to enter the key (key length and data are dependant on the network): {{{iwconfig mode managed essid network_to_associate_with key key 1122334455 }}}

To connect to an Ad-Hoc network:

iwconfig mode ad-hoc essid network_to_associate_with

*BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.)

Finding your card

Most, if not all Wireless Cards are named wiX (where X is the number of the network card starting at 0). Cisco/Aironet devices are named anX.

Setting up your SSID, Channel and WEP keys

FreeBSD can use the wicontrol or ifconfig commands. For simplicity, we use ifconfig only.

To set your network's SSID:

ifconfig wi0 ssid SSID

To set the channel:

ifconfig wi0 channel 3

To set a WEP key:

ifconfig wi0 wepkey THEKEY

You can also mix commands together instead of running each manually:

ifconfig wi0 ssid www.freenetworks.org channel 3 

We mentioned before that wicontrol can be used to change your Wireless Network settings. You can use:

wicontrol wi0

to view the card's current settings. Full help is available for wicontrol [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wicontrol&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE&format=html here].

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