Re: [LUG] Wireless Card Config

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

George Sinclair wrote:
| Seems that wlan0 is handled by service PCMCIA, any idea how to set
| configuration for "wlan-pcmcia-1 wlan0" as "iwconfig" doesn't work.

~From the screenshot you sent - it is using wlan-ng.

I plead ignorance of wlan-ng only used it once - but the standard
location for wireless options is /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts

Looks to me like the driver loaded okay, but there was no networking
settings for wlan0, so it didn't bring the interface up (error message
reading --- "ifup: No configuration ...." is a bit of a give away).

So you probably need some wireless network settings (essid=ANY or such
like), but definitely need some IP settings for the wlan0 interface (IP
address, gateway info etc) however your distro does that
(/etc/network/interfaces in Debian,
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts(?)...mumble.. for Redhat, or try a GUI tool).

The output of the wireless settings looks suspiciously like the output
of "iwconfig wlan0", and I think you can use "iwconfig" as a read-only
tool within wlan-ng (i.e. iwconfig wlan0") to check what the settings
are (for us iwconfig die-hards).


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFA3FkpGFXfHI9FVgYRAi12AJ4rPXA4Y+Wo3ekhPczguDsa9Lr0ugCgjsE4
BD3Uglg/i84DPpmFhPE3g5s=
=mQOt
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the
message body to unsubscribe.