[Discuss] Questions

[John Blomfield]

Murray Strome wrote:
> R. Langkamer wrote:
>> On 11/3/07 4:13 PM, Yves Bajard wrote:
>>
>>> Would anyone among you know in the Greater Victoria 1. a 
>>> good,reliable techie competent with Windows (my wife is steadily
>>> against moving to Linux), Linux and internet connections (wireless and
>>> cable/ADSL)? 
>>
>>     Me. :)
>>
> Do you know any website that will give clear instructions on how to 
> get wireless to work with Kubuntu? It appears to detect my wireless 
> card OK, but nothing I do seems to enable it to connect to my 
> Firewall/router.  Of course, it works fine if I attach an Ethernet 
> cable. I probably just don't understand how to set it up.  I put in 
> the SSID and the 10 hex digit WEP code that I use for Windows, but 
> that doesn't seem to work. There does not appear to be anything like 
> what is available in Windows that shows all the Wireless nets within 
> range.
>
> I did ask this before on the list, but never received any replies, so 
> thought I would try again.
>
> Murray
As usual it all depends on the wireless card that you have!  What is it? 
Some cards have linux drivers (firmware) that are free but are 
proprietary and are not included in the distributions, so you must 
downloaded separately.  To solve your scanning problem ( showing all 
nets within range ) you need wireless-tools, see man pages wireless 
and   iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).  I am not 
familiar with Kubuntu but based on your comment I assume it has some 
sort of configuration GUI which is probably a front end to those tools 
but probably does not display all possible features.  On the command 
line try "/sbin/iwlist eth1 scanning" (substitute your wireless card 
address for eth1 ) or something similar assuming your card has been 
configured with iwconfig.  Better still, using Gnome, activate the 
NetworkManager service and make sure keyring is installed, under KDE, 
knetworkmanager is a wrapper for NetworkManager so you need 
kneworkmanager installed as well as NetworkManager and activated.  
kneworkmanager uses kwallet to control access to wireless services 
instead of keyring so you need to install kwallet.  Both systems provide 
a nice applet that monitors wireless connection data, signal strength 
etc and also lists alternative wireless nodes.  You can switch wireless 
nodes and reconfigure SSID's and encription codes. WPA encription is 
also supported.  As I said I don't know if any of this will work with 
Kubuntu but it does with Fedora Core 6.

John Blomfield

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