RH9.0 and Wireless

[Jason Hecker]

In a nutshell, I didn't bother having any wireless device listed in the 
Network Config control panel.

Make sure your wireless eth0 interface is down:

ip set dev eth0 down

then

iwconfig dev eth0 mode managed key xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx essid 
"youressid" 

then to bring it up and set the IP of eth0:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.x

Don't forget to set up your raoutes as you need them.

This worked.

I will look through the scripts tonight and hopefully post some diffs so 
you can use the control panel utility.

Also, it breaks WEP by setting the $KEY variable wrong.  It always has a 
"s:" prefix, even if you don't use a WEP key which breaks it.  

I think the whole wireless part of their config setup and network
scripting is buggered.  Didn't anyone test this?!?!!  RH8.0 worked sweet!


At this poing

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Mathieu Feulvarc'h wrote:
> Hello.
> It didn't work too for my orinoco silver. 
> BTW, can you explain how you make it work?
> Thanks.

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Cheers,
jASON
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