Hi,

I wanna write a shell script that scans periodically (called from crontab)
all wifi networks available with iwlist and then try to connect to the ones
that are not secured. I think this would be a cool idea especially if
you're wandering around in a city and you would like to get connected to
any connection that takes you.
I got as far as getting all the SSIDs in a list with:
iwlist scan | awk -F\" '/ESSID/ {print $2}'
but i then got stuck in just getting connected from the console using
iwconfig.
I simply tried to connect with iwconfig /dev/eth1 essid "tuxnet" (which is
my own unsecured SSID) but i didn't get an IP address but when connecting
using the NetworkManager it works flawlessly. What am I missing?

Thanks,
Ron
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