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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: Zhongliang Zhao <zhao@iam.unibe.ch>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iw dev wlan0 link - "Not connected"
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:23:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinfWZaiMsmPTmm5qrBRcqMAvQpv1Xq86fxo+S3Z@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4D5560.2040201@iam.unibe.ch>

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Zhongliang Zhao <zhao@iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> When I use "iw dev wlan0 link" to get information on wlan0 (basically to
> check the channel used on wlan0),
> it says: " Not connected "
>
> Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Refer to:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Getting_link_status

And then:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Establishing_a_basic_connection

What you really want to use is:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/wpa_supplicant

  Luis

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-26  9:29 iw dev wlan0 link - "Not connected" Zhongliang Zhao
2010-07-26 17:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2010-07-28 10:20   ` Zhongliang Zhao
2010-07-28 17:30     ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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