Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Using this method will also allow you to connect to your router if it does not
broadcast its SSID.
It is a common misconception that disabling SSID broadcast protects
your network. There are tools that can still find SSID names using normal
wireless cards without effort, even though you have turned this off.
The best form of security is to use the latest encryption protocol and a
complex password.
Using wicd-curses
Using the
wicd-curses
package is a much simpler way of setting up wireless and
even wired interfaces in the console. This package allows you to edit advanced
options like static IP, DNS, and hostnames. A daemon also runs in the background
that automatically reconnects the interface if the wireless signal drops out, and this
is a more reliable way to maintain a wireless network in poor signal areas. To
use this package, you should comment out any settings in the
wpa_supplicant
interfaces file.
Installing this package will install many other dependency packages and
can take up in excess of 8 MB of extra space. Some sources also claim that
running this daemon uses more overhead, but this seems like a fair, small
price to pay for ease of use and reliability.
sudo apt-get install wicd-curses
sudo wicd-curses
You will get a console screen with a list of available wireless access points. Use the
cursor keys to select your access point and press the right key to edit its properties.
If you see the message stating that no wireless networks are detected, try
to open the preferences window by pressing
P
and type
"wlan0
" in the
wireless interface field.
Once you are in the configuring preferences screen for wireless networks, you only
need to enter your password in the key field. Save the settings by pressing
F10
.
