That is one network access point, yes. However, where I am, I get about
10 of those, and must then read down to
ESSID:
to find the name. Each access point grouping starts with
Cell 0?
so by skipping to each new Cell number, I can find the next access
point to verify if it is mine.
--
Charlie Kravetz
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:02:38 -0500 (EST)
Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote:
>I can't do anything more on debian until problem with espeak
>accessibility gets fixed. I've already sent that report to
>debian-accessibility list not running debian to do it either. Lots of
>missing command line network documentation too. I was making some
>progress using iwconfig and may be close except for an unassociated
>access point. So when I run iwlist wlx00c0ca364bd2 scanning >iwlist.txt
>and the iwlist.txt has a line near the top that says address: and then
>shows a hex address, is that my access point?
>
>On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>>
>> I tried manual network configuration and debian renamed wlan0 to
>> wlx00c0ca364bd2 for some reason. If I do ip a that shows up as possible
>> wifi
>> connection. Unfortunately ifup doesn't recognize that device name.
>>
>> Before this, I tried configuration with gnome and had a failure doing that
>> too. That failure is being investigated on the debian-accessibility list
>> since I use orca when in graphical user environment. I'm going to check out
>> my fedora instance since that one works and when it did come up a component
>> broke and got reported. I may have some clues in those files.
>>
>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA256
>>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 13:13:33 -0500 (EST)
>>> Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I used wpa_passphrase I put about 5 lines into
>>>> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf which wasn't the original from the
>>>> documentation but a new file. The first line said network= and that was
>>>> all. For a wifi connection, what should go in that network= field?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>> The entries I use look like this:
>>>
>>> network={
>>> ssid="The_ssid_I_want_to_use"
>>> psk="My_passphase_for_this_ssid"
>>> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>>>
>>>
>>> There is no closing bracket.
>>> - --
>>> Charlie Kravetz
>>>
>>
>>
>
