Backtrack basics 8. - connecting to WiFi network with iwconfig

With the use of iwconfig we can connect to open and WEP protected wireless networks from the command line.

Open networks:

iwconfig wlan0 essid WLAN_test

WEP protected networks:

iwconfig wlan0 essid WLAN_test key AAAABBBBCC

Where wlan0 is the name of the wireless interface, WLAN_test is the SSID and AAAABBBBCC is the WEP key.