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Can you explain how to understand what the 'iwconfig' command displays in Ubuntu-9.04?

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I'm having trouble making my wireless connection work, and I realized I don't really know how to use the tools I have, in this case, the iwconfig command in Ubuntu-9.04. Here is what I get when I run : "Network" is the name of my wireless network, by the way. But what does this all mean? How can th…

Error Output

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Network"  
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I'm surprised no one has bothered to mention this in the answers above but it sounds like you're really trying to get the wifi connection to work under linux -- not so much to understand each iwconfig parameters in all its gory details. With this in…

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