[ltp] Wireless Networking

[Heather Guse]

It took me a while to get my wireless stuff working but I have had it up for a few months under RH 7.1.

First question does your card ever light up once the system is booted, and second on shutdown do you notice a message about 'mod probe' and the wavlan_cs driver?  I don't remember exactly how I got this up and running and I am in a conference all day today...but I will go through it tonight.  In the mean time one of our other very knoledgeable list dwellers will probably come up with the answer.

As much as I recall without looking, it had something to do with the driver not loading before the ifup command was called for eth1.  I did have problems configuring iwconfig (at least I thought), but it turned out to be something with the mod probe, wavelan_cs, and loading at boot before ifup was called.  If know one else answers before tonight...I will figure out exactly what I did and get back to you.

Heather Guse
hguse@dpnsecurity.com

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:11:32PM -0500, Cameron Hooper had written:
> On 12 Dec 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 20:54, Cameron Hooper wrote:
> > > At home I have internet access via a cable modem which plugs into a
> > > Linksys etherfast wireless AP + cable/dsl router. I have wireless
> > > connectivity under windows.
> >
> > 802.11b needs to be configured.  You need to set up
> > SSIDs and perhaps WEP keys, etc.
> >
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I suspected this was the case. The trouble is I don't know how to set
> these these things up. I know the SSID (I don't think I need WEP keys).
> I've tried to configure this by editing /etc/pcmcia/config but I'm clearly
> not doing it properly. I get the feeling I really shouldn't be messing
> with this file anyway. I've also tried to alter /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opt
> but I really don't understand what I'm doing.
> 
> Does anyone know of a good tutorial aimed at the totally clueless (and I
> mean *totally* clueless) pcmcia/wireless newbie? Something that could lead
> me step by step through this process.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cameron
> 
> 
> >
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