On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > # iwlist wlan0 scan > > ... i can see! i can see! ... > > > > > > does this look reasonable? at this point, i assume i would go into > > Yes it looks fine, but you are not associated to any AP. This is > the wired ethernet equivalent of not having a cable plugged in. > You can try to force association by hand if you like > > iwconfig wlan0 ap 11:22:33:44:55:66 <--- AP MAC > > or go on with your plan to do the same thing the official way... well, it's not surprising that i'm not associated with any AP, since i haven't done anything to finish that part of the process. my plan was, as i mentioned, to just use the GUI menu entry for network admin -- i didn't realize i could also use iwconfig as above to do the same thing. but other than that, things are looking good. rday