HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

[Tom H]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 08/13/2010 03:30 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> ifconfig wlan0 up
>> iwconfig wlan0 essid<essid>  key s:<asciikey>
>> dhclient wlan0
> Are you so sure??
>
> sudo ifconfig ra0 up
> sudo iwconfig ra0 essid MYEssID key
> s:"SomeLongText..............................."
> sudo dhclient ra0
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>     SET failed on device ra0 ; Invalid argument.

I've use this in the past with wep access points.