How to scan for and connect to a wireless network point from the command line

[jake111234567]

can someone please help me

[tuvazeock]

I'm pretty new to wireless, I've only been using it for a month now. So maybe I'm way off here, but I've been using the command dhclient wlan0 instead of dhcpcd wlan0.

I hope this helps.

I haven't made 15 posts yet so it doesn't let me post the website I used. just search for Wireless networking on linuxquestions.

[jake111234567]

dhclient gives the right ip adress but wrong bcast ip

[chasebadkids]

I used your syntax to try and connect to my AP with a key that was ASCII.
( iwconfig wlan0 essid hackme key s: bella )

and it reports back "error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "s:".

any idea as to why this may be?

[KingMidas]

I used your syntax to try and connect to my AP with a key that was ASCII.
( iwconfig wlan0 essid hackme key s: bella )

and it reports back "error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "s:".

any idea as to why this may be?

Take the space out between 's:' and the 'passphrase' eg

key s:bella

[abrupTHavoK]

nice and simple

KISS instructions are always the best

thanks for the post KingMidas