Instructions on how to associate with an AccessPoint under your operating system.    Warning, this is currently a work in progress, and very much incomplete.   --ForrestEnglish

= Windows =

Windows 98, ME and 2000 each use applications shipped with your card that you should install and use.  I will fill each of these out as I have time and cards ;)

== Lucent / Orinoco / Wavelan ==


= Linux =
These instructions should work if your driver is compatible with the linux wireless extensions.  Drivers that support this are all of the in kernel drivers, and drivers in pcmcia-cs, also HostAp is compatible.  You should be able to define what network your pcmcia card connects to in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, however some cards firmware ignores this (and HostAp is set from /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf).   Listed below are some commands that will allow you to change network association.

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Connect to a standard InfastructureMode access point:
{{{
iwconfig eth0 mode managed essid network_to_associate_with
}}}

If you want to connect to a WEP network, you will have to enter the key (key length and data are dependent on the network):
{{{
iwconfig eth0 mode managed essid network_to_associate_with key 1122334455
}}}
or
{{{
iwconfig eth0 mode managed essid network_to_associate_with key s:phrase
}}}

To connect to an Ad-Hoc network:
{{{
iwconfig eth0 mode ad-hoc essid network_to_associate_with
}}}

= *BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.) =
=== Finding your card ===
Most, if not all Wireless Cards are named wiX (where X is the number of the network card starting at 0).  Cisco/Aironet devices are named anX.  

=== Setting up your SSID, Channel and WEP keys ===
FreeBSD can use the wicontrol or ifconfig commands.  For simplicity, we use ifconfig only.

To set your network's SSID:
{{{
ifconfig wi0 ssid SSID
}}}

To set the channel:
{{{
ifconfig wi0 channel 3
}}}

To set a WEP key:
{{{
ifconfig wi0 wepkey THEKEY
}}}

You can also mix commands together instead of running each manually:
{{{
ifconfig wi0 ssid www.freenetworks.org channel 3 
}}}

We mentioned before that wicontrol can be used to change your Wireless Network settings.  You can use:
{{{
wicontrol wi0
}}}

to view the card's current settings.  Full help is available for wicontrol [[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wicontrol&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE&format=html|here]].

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