r165 - community/trunk/en-US

[sradvan at fedoraproject.org]

Author: sradvan
Date: 2010-07-22 00:41:27 +0000 (Thu, 22 Jul 2010)
New Revision: 165

Modified:
   community/trunk/en-US/Fedora_Wireless.xml
Log:


Modified: community/trunk/en-US/Fedora_Wireless.xml
===================================================================
--- community/trunk/en-US/Fedora_Wireless.xml	2010-07-22 00:27:15 UTC (rev 164)
+++ community/trunk/en-US/Fedora_Wireless.xml	2010-07-22 00:41:27 UTC (rev 165)
@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@
 				<command>iwconfig</command> is a command-line utility that sets the parameters of a network interface that connects to a wireless network. Open a terminal and run <command>su -</command> and enter the root/administrative password to switch to the root user. Run <command>iwconfig</command> without any arguments to show which interface has wireless capabilities:
 			</para>
 <screen>
-[scott at localhost ~]$ su -
-Password: 
-[root at localhost ~]# iwconfig
+[scott at localhost ~]$ su -c 'iwconfig'
+Password: ********
+
 lo        no wireless extensions.
 
 eth0      no wireless extensions.
@@ -151,18 +151,19 @@
 				Note that <computeroutput>eth1</computeroutput> is a working wireless interface, and is currently not associated to any network.
 			</para>
 			<para>
-				The following output shows the use of <command>iwconfig</command> to connect to a simple wireless network with an ESSID of <computeroutput>mynet</computeroutput> with a WEP key of <computeroutput>16a12bd649ced7ce42ee3f383f</computeroutput>:
+				The following output shows the example use of <command>iwconfig</command> to connect to a simple wireless network with an ESSID of <computeroutput>mynet</computeroutput> with a WEP key of <computeroutput>16a12bd649ced7ce42ee3f383f</computeroutput>. Make sure you subsititute your settings:
 			</para>
 <screen>
-[root at localhost ~]# iwconfig eth1 essid mynet key 16a12bd649ced7ce42ee3f383f
-[root at localhost ~]# ifconfig eth1 up
-[root at localhost ~]# dhclient eth1
+[scott at localhost ~]$ su -c 'iwconfig eth1 essid mynet key 16a12bd649ced7ce42ee3f383f'
+Password: ********
+[scott at localhost ~]$ su -c 'ifconfig eth1 up'
+[scott at localhost ~]$ su -c 'dhclient eth1'
 </screen>
 			<para>
 				Once these commands are entered, run <command>iwconfig eth1</command> to show the connection details:
 			</para>
 <screen>
-[root at localhost ~]# iwconfig eth1
+[scott at localhost ~]$ su -c 'iwconfig eth1'
 eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"mynet"  
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Access Point: 00:1D:A2:88:A9:41
           Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
@@ -191,5 +192,26 @@
                         </para>
                 </listitem>
 </orderedlist>
+	<para>
+		<package>wpa_supplicant</package> is a software package provided in &OS; that provides tools to configure a WPA connection. Make sure you have this package by running the following command in a terminal:
+	</para>
+<screen>
+[scott at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep wpa_supplicant
+
+wpa_supplicant-0.6.8-9.fc13.x86_64
+</screen>
+	<para>
+		If you do not receive any output when running this command, make sure you have <package>wpa_supplicant</package> installed:
+	</para>
+<screen>
+[scott at localhost ~]$ su -c 'yum install wpa_supplicant'
+</screen>
+	<para>
+		And follow the prompts to install the package.
+	</para>
+
+	<para>
+		more...
+	</para>
 </section>
 </chapter>