Start Network manually.

[hughc]

I continue to have problems getting the wireless networking app to run (wicd). Here is how to start the wireless network from the command line or a script.

Start of script-

/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 up
echo "ifconfig wlan0 192.168.16.9 netmask 255.255.255.0 up"
/sbin/route add default gw yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
echo "route"
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
echo "iwconfig"

End of script

You can enter these commands on the command line. Ignore the echo statements.
These commands reguire root access.
One more item. You can copy these lines with ctl-c. To paste of the command line use
ctl-shift-v.
~
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is an avialble ip. If you have to guess I suggest 192.168.15.9
yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is your router's ip. If you have to guess try 192.168.15.1
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz is the name of your wireless internet network. Mine is "MOT-1-EE"

Good luck