DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.1
DISTRIB_CODENAME=rebecca
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca"
Intel Pentium CPU N3540 @ 2.16GH x 4
3.7 Gib RAM
I may be confusing apples and oranges here but, I have questions on how to set up my wireless adapter. I never use wireless unless I travel and take my laptop. Situation is:
My netgear router is configured for wireless and set up with my own user name and password and WAP encryption and password for guest who want wireless and I believe it is working great and protected because you do need to enter the password to access the net via the netgear wireless router.
I bought a new laptop a few months ago and I can connect to the internet using the wireless adaptor if I desire. However, I can't find any means of setting up the wireless network adaptor in the laptop. It seems to me that a setup should be performed on the laptop wireless adaptor to set encryption and password but I can't see any place to do this. If I'm in a motel and log in to their wireless network I will be completely unprotected right?
I have searched forums but nearly everything there is concerning the wireless not working. Mine works great. I did see the post by Clem telling us to run mintwifi and post the results.
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charlie@aries ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:0036 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c4:54:44:e4:b4:fc
inet addr:10.0.0.5 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::c654:44ff:fee4:b4fc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24430 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16428 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33034687 (33.0 MB) TX bytes:1461975 (1.4 MB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:111966 (111.9 KB) TX bytes:111966 (111.9 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 10.0.0.1
Address: 10.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 216.58.192.78
charlie@aries ~ $