[olug] is it just me?

[Jay Swackhamer]

iwconfig INTERFACE essid ESSID
i.e.
iwconfig wlan0 essid MY_CISCO_ESSID

related wireless-tools:
iwconfig
iwpriv
iwlist


>
>  I've got SuSe 9.2 on my laptop and more and more I'm feeling like its
> just a fancy skin over a Microsoft product.
>
>  Case in point: how do you change SSID from the command line? Its not in
> ifconfig like it is for BSD. There are a dozen conflicting pages found
> via google and none seem to apply to my vanilla SuSe install. I searched
> for 'wireless' with YaST, I installed the things I found, and they
> mostly don't behave - kwifimanager is in a world of its own, and no
> command line utilities seem to be included. I have vague memories of
> SSID being set on install of the kernel module for the card, but that
> seems to be the 'other' Aironet driver, not the one that works with my
> A/B/G Aironet card.
>
>  Yes, YaST will do it ... eventually ... but I'm not willing to wade
> through menus and wait sixty seconds every time I want to change SSID -
> I'm playing with multi SSID features on a Cisco AP tonight and simple
> tasks should be accomplished *simply*.
>
>
>  BSD, it is *so* much more difficult - ifconfig an0 ssid whatever and
> you're done. Status? wicontrol for prism cards, ancontrol for Cisco.
> Text  based tools, good man page, man page sends you somewhere else if
> it isn't the right thing, google and there is *one* answer that is true
> through time, not a plethora of competing methods that vary on a distro
> by distro basis.
>
>  SuSe feels for all the world like Windows NT 4.0 - a fine idea gone
> terribly wrong in subtle ways. They're trying to cater to the legions of
> Windows admins out there and they're losing most of what made Linux good
> in the first place, just like Redhat did around 2000.
>
>  I've got a spare laptop drive. FreeBSD 5.4 is going on this laptop so I
> can get some work done ...
>
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