Wifi connecting to AP via terminal. "iwconfig wlan0 essid" doesn't work.
Hi there.
I know it might be a noob question but everyone needs to take a first step...
I'm trying to make a manual connection via terminal to my AP wich has a disabled/open authentication method.
I'm about to buy a awus036h card but before, i decided to check if is everything working fine untill i reach
a point where the card is the only hardware that will work for a future/given purpose.
I'm running KL 1.0.8 through a live persistent usb stick. I have an asus (k45a) notebook that comes with an
onboard wireless adapter:
As i read from a related post in another linux forum, network-manager won't deal with changes made to network stuffCode:~# lspci | grep -i wireless 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
with the terminal, so i decided to stop it before i begin:
The point is that it does acquire any ESSID i type in but only this.Code:root@kali:~# service network-manager stop [ ok ] Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager. root@kali:~# iwconfig eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 up root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:68:9d:bf:46:67 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:105243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:76008 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:52432324 (50.0 MiB) TX bytes:11172917 (10.6 MiB) root@kali:~# iwlist wlan0 scanning wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 64:70:02:5A:BE:AE Channel:1 Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Quality=29/70 Signal level=-81 dBm Encryption key:off ESSID:"Leonardo Pagio" Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Mode:Master Extra:tsf=000000055ef90648 Extra: Last beacon: 856ms ago IE: Unknown: 000E4C656F6E6172646F20506167696F IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824 IE: Unknown: 030101 IE: Unknown: 0706425220010D14 IE: Unknown: 2A0100 IE: Unknown: 32043048606C IE: Unknown: 2D1A6E1103FF00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 IE: Unknown: 331A6E1103FF00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 IE: Unknown: 3D16010D0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 IE: Unknown: 3416010D0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101830003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00 IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010000FF7F IE: Unknown: DD9B0050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010000000000000100000006470025ABE101021000754502D4C494E4B10230009544C2D57523734304E10240003342E3010420003312E301054000800060050F20400011011001B526F746561646F7220576972656C65737320544C2D57523734304E100800020086103C000101104900140024E26002000101600000020001600100020001 root@kali:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid "Leonardo Pagio" root@kali:~# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Leonardo Pagio" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=16 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off
"Acces Point" information should return the mac of my router.
Also, from this point, i didn't succed getting a dhcp ip ir pinging anything... as it says: i am not associated.
Misteriously when i have network-manager activated by doing a GUI connection everything works and it does
find the mac of the AP.
I also typed in the essid without quotation marks but nothing.
My question is if it's an issue related with the built in notebook wifi adapter (i.e. it will be solved with the awus036h) or is there any other process that i
should stop (just like network-manager) before putting it to work?
Any tip will be welcome.
Best regards.
Originally Posted by Tichours
