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WiFi wireless.

WTware supports WiFi only if terminal boots from local media (CD-ROM, hard disk, USB-flash).

To work with WiFi when terminal boots from CD select in CD image generator:


WiFi in WTware cdrom boot

To work with WiFi when WTware terminal boots from hard disk or USB flash press Del during boot (when you see "Press Del to enter Setup"), goto terminal management menu and select:


WiFi in WTware ide usb boot

Specify network identificator in the field SSID. Specify channel number in the field Channel. These parameters should correspond to the access point configuration.

Attention! Any length key WEP-encryption is unsafe. Consider this when you project network.

Specify script with WiFi settings in the field Settings. It's not required. For more details about this script read below.



WiFi settings script

It should be a text file named wifi.sh. Comments should start from # symbol. Commands in this file are used to configure WiFi network encryption or set additional parameters. For encryption add one of the lines below:

WEP, 64 bit, HEX key, Open System:

/sbin/iwconfig ath0 key 1234567890

128 and 256 bit keys are set just the same, only you should specify 26 and 58 digits.

WEP, 64 bit, HEX key, Shared Key:

/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key 1234567890
/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 authmode 2

WEP, 64 bit, ASCII key, Open System:

/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key s:asdfg


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