{"id":20,"date":"2011-05-19T21:34:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:23:03","slug":"wireless-setup-from-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/2011\/05\/19\/wireless-setup-from-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Setup linux wireless from a terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make sure wireless-tools is installed and then edit \/etc\/network\/interfacese<\/p>\n

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auto eth1
\niface eth1 inet dhcp
\nwpa-driver wext
\nwpa-ssid [<\/span>ssid here]<\/span>
\nwpa-ap-scan 1<\/span>
\nwpa-proto WPA
\nwpa-pairwise TKIP
\nwpa-group TKIP
\nwpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
\nwpa-psk [<\/span>result of wpa_passphrase essid phrase]<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

#or<\/p>\n

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\niface eth1 inet dhcp
\nwireless-essid [<\/span>ssid here]<\/span>
\nwireless-key [<\/span>network key]<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

And to improve your wireless performance if you’re getting dropped packets use<\/p>\n

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iwconfig [<\/span>interface]<\/span> rate 5.5M auto<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make sure wireless-tools is installed and then edit \/etc\/network\/interfacese 12345678910auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-ssid [ssid here] wpa-ap-scan 1 wpa-proto WPA wpa-pairwise TKIP wpa-group TKIP wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK wpa-psk [result of wpa_passphrase essid phrase] #or 1234auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless-essid [ssid here] wireless-key [network key] And to improve your wireless performance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[27,5,24,25,26,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}