On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:31:50 -0800 (PST) > begin Keith Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > > > > To Bill, I've done different permutations of find and grep with no luck > > so far. I've keyed in on using ESSID and am trying understand how ifup > > gets the parameter to pass to iwconfig. But I still don't know where > > ifup gets those parameters from. > > I'll stick my $.02 in here. I'm not sure what Mandrake does w/ their ifup > script, but if the pcmcia stuff sources /etc/pcmcia at all, you should > edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts for this configuration option. > > If you have a /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file, somewhere around line 44 > you'll need to comment out two lines that look like: > *,*,*,*) > ;; > > Then find your particular card and farther down and uncomment and edit the > appropriate options (like ESSID, MODE, KEY, etc.). > > Then let the ifup script handle the IP stuff. >
Since all the work I have done with Linux and wireless cards has been in the pcmcia realm, that's what I would have expected too. In fact, the first place I checked was /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. No go. The file's date stamped matched with when the system was originally installed with Mandrake. The wireless card though is not a pcmcia device, but rather a pci card. Linksys WMP11, IIRC. Based on that, I don't think pcmcia is/was used to support this card. It's just plain weird. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
