questo è quello che ora ho provato a fare, con scarsi risultati pare..
faber@faber-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up
Password:
faber@faber-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency=nan kHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1253 Missed beacon:0
ppp0 no wireless extensions.
ppp1 no wireless extensions.
faber@faber-laptop:~$ iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:19:3E:89:15:91
ESSID:"Alice-34096846"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=97/100 Signal level=-28 dBm Noise level=-28 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 212ms ago
faber@faber-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig eth1 mode managed channel 1 essid "Alice-34096846"
faber@faber-laptop:~$ iwconfig eth1
eth1 unassociated ESSID:"Alice-34096846"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1262 Missed beacon:0
faber@faber-laptop:~$ sudo dhclient eth1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:13:02:0a:30:56
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:13:02:0a:30:56
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.