Wireless connection

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WiFi Configuration

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Terminology/Security 3 Working in Mepis 4 Troubleshooting 5 Particular cards

Introduction

• What is 802.11x?
• MEPIS comes preconfigured to autodetect a WiFi card. Some cards will not be autodetected, but will work with some manual configuration.
• If you are a newcomer to MEPIS, please first consult the basic steps for getting your wireless running if it did not start automatically.
• Your wireless configuration can be fine tuned in MEPIS 6.5 and 7.0 with the Network Manager/Assistant. In earlier MEPIS versions, use MEPIS Utilities, MEPIS System Center or OS Center.
• If there is no native Linux driver for your card (look here), you can use a Windows driver using Ndiswrapper or Linuxant (non-free).

Terminology/Security

• SSID (also referred to as ESSID)
• WEP
• WPA

Working in Mepis

• MEPIS Utilities or MEPIS Network Manager or MEPIS 8 Network Assistant
• Native wireless drivers
• Ndiswrapper
• Wicd
• Wlassistant
• Kwifimanager
• Wifi-radar

Troubleshooting

• Command line utilities
• Wireless card not detected
• Network interface varies
• Unstable Connection
• 64bit kernel
• wlan0 rename

Particular cards

• Linksys WUSB12, prism2_usb chipset
• Any card or winmodem using the Broadcom43xx chipset
• Atheros-based wireless devices
• Lucent(Agere) LT Winmodem/Stratitec IA56 Internal
• Any card using the ralink 2500 chipset
• rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, rt61 and rt73 chipsets
• Any WiFi devices based on Intel 5000-series chipsets