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Title: How do I connect to a wireless lan??
Post by: Stegnation on May 23, 2004, 04:33:25 pm

Hi, I just purchased a D-LINK DFC-660W.

I\'ve installed Kismet and it works fine. I don\'t have my own access point, but Kismet finds a few APs and Probes. What are the probes? Antennas?

But how on earth do I connect to one of these APs?

I\'m running SharpROM 3.10

Title: How do I connect to a wireless lan??
Post by: doseas on May 24, 2004, 03:28:38 pm

A probe is basically a device looking for another device.

You can only easily connect to an access point that isn\'t WEP encrypted and isn\'t using MAC access control.

If you can see an IP address for the AP, then it isn\'t MAC controlled.

I\'ve setup a Wireless LAN configuration (using the Network Setup applet) called \"Public WAN\" with these parameters:
Non-specific ESSID (\"ANY\")
WEP disabled
Obtain TCP/IP automatically
Obtain DNS automatically
No proxy

This allows me to connect to most open APs that I\'ve found.

Once you\'ve set up the WLAN config, select it from the list using the \"globe\" icon that appears on the taskbar when you insert your WLAN card, then select \"connect\".

Title: How do I connect to a wireless lan??
Post by: Stegnation on May 25, 2004, 07:46:43 am

Finally I found a connection that works  8)

But what if a connection has no ESSID and no WEP, but I can see the ip address. Is it possible to connect?

It shows 192.168.2.3 as its ip address.