Comments on: iwconfig – Wireless Interface configuration utility in Linux

By: bilal

bilal — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:01:32 +0000

@Tomm

its probably cause route table problem. imean default gateway adress.
so try to ping this;

ping 8.8.8.8

if you take good response add default gateway
i assume your router addr: 192.168.1.1 and iw device:wlan0
so;
fmv-biblo:~ # route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0

and

ping google.com

sory my english

By: Tomm

Tomm — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:36:18 +0000

sorry,
IP is assigned as bellow but can not communicate,
why ?

—
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:79:39:F2:DB
inet addr:192.168.1.17 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:34406 (33.5 Kb) TX bytes:33798 (33.0 Kb)

—
fmv-biblo:~ # ping yahoo.co.jp
ping: unknown host yahoo.co.jp

By: Tomm

Tomm — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:28:49 +0000

Hi, I did try same setting to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i586).
but it never assigned IP address by home rooter
after following 4 steps.

iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid “ABC-WIFI”
iwconfig wlan0 key 1111-2222-3333-4444
iwconfig wlan0 channel auto

Enterprise Suse wireless setting procedure is same as Open Suse,I supposed

please give me advise.

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By: shashank

shashank — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:28:43 +0000

wonderful… i have been trying to connect to wifi in home from last 4 days but to no avail,
even the service provider’s men didnt knew how to do it… but now its working..
hats off..

By: alex

alex — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:48:29 +0000

i follow these steps in configuring wlan0.but still i cannot connect to the internet.where can i see the wireless icons in opensuse 11.2?

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By: Mark Halstead

Mark Halstead — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:09:35 +0000

What is the proper way to save these settings for next boot?