LinuxGazette.net: Debugging WiFi

“Don’t you hate it when you have a problem, only to be told, ‘On
my machine, it just works’? I know I do. So when Ben Okopnik wrote
in Linux Gazette #127:

“[ I do a lot of travelling, and connect to a wide
variety of strange WLANs. In my experience, at least, connecting to
a wireless LAN with Linux is usually just as simple as Edgar
describes. — Ben ]

“This motivated me to solve a long-standing problem: I could not
connect to ‘open’ wifi access points. I had no trouble at all with
closed access points; someone gives me the ESSID and the WEP key,
and I’m on. But plop me down at a hotel, airport, or coffee shop,
and no amount of fiddling would get me connected…”

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