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Topic: Wireless profiles for different locations?, Need to run wlcardconfig each time?

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curaga

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Posted: Aug. 23 2007,09:53

You could just check what wlcardconfig does in each location, and then make a script of those..

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yangmusa

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Posted: Aug. 23 2007,15:58

I never managed to get connected at the office, using wlcardconfig or iwconfig.. So I "cheat" and plug into the nearest cable I can find. I talked to the admin, and he's always thought it was odd that the name and key consist of multiple words - but isn't sure he wants to deal with a week of people complaining that the network is down because they didn't read the email about changed key :;):

roberts

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Posted: Aug. 24 2007,14:45

Sounds like it might be using WPA.

yangmusa

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Posted: Aug. 24 2007,15:37

Quote (roberts @ Aug. 24 2007,07:45)

Sounds like it might be using WPA.

No, it's definitely WEP, I've asked the admin and it works fine on my mac. A unix-literate friend of mine suggested I should try escaping the spaces in between the words in the ESSID and pass-phrase. I'll give that a try today.

PS - I added the script from iwconfig to my other script, and now have a nice script that seems to work every time to get my home connection up. Thanks