A few basic network commands on Linux at Monday, April 07, 2008

A few basic network commands for the benefit of my friend who's just installed Ubuntu on his laptop...

To see what id you're wireless card has got:

iwconfig

Then to restart the interface (change the eth1 id to match your system):

sudo ifdown eth1
sudo ifup eth1

This should kick things into life. However if you still don't get an IP address from the router try:

sudo dhclient