On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Keith Morse wrote: > 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.
Perhaps the module that supports the card has options where you can pass the ESSID etc? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
