On July 29, 2005 08:42 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 29 July 2005 16:07, John Wilson wrote: > > This is my ifconfig-wlan0 > > DEVICE=wlan0 > > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > > ONBOOT=yes > > HWADDR=00:11:f5:61:56:dc > > METRIC=10 > > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > > USERCTL=yes > > WIRELESS_MODE=Auto > > WIRELESS_ESSID=yrr18itta3 > > DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient > > DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.1 > > NEEDHOSTNAME=no > > PEERDNS=yes > > PEERYP=no > > PEERNTPD=no > > > > Now, I'm kinda assuming that the HWADDR shown here is of my card on my > > laptop. So where do you set the MAC for the router? I do know that so I > > need to know where to set it. > > > > Thanks again. > > > > ttfn > > > > John > > You do not need to know the IP address of the Router, just its ESSID name, > and you do not even need that since you could tell it to connect to "Any" > ESSID. > > In your configuration the following lines are not necessary > HWADDR=00:11:f5:61:56:dc #If you do not specify a MAC address the driver > will bind to any compatible wireless card it finds. > METRIC=10 # Why should you want to limit your hop count. > USERCTL=yes # I do not even know what this does. > DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.1 # This is supposed to be a hostname not an IP > address and you do not need it anyway. > DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient # By default Mandriva will use dhclient > PEERYP=no # not needed > PEERNTPD=no # not needed > > What you DO need in your configuration is > DEVICE=wlan0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=yes > WIRELESS_MODE=Managed # Assuming your router is a wireless access point > WIRELESS_ESSID=yrr18itta3 # Assuming that really is the ESSID of your > router. Check your router config. If you use the string 'any' then it > will connect to the strongest signal it finds. > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="s:ascii_string" # if you have encryption enabled on your > router you MUST include this parameter where 'ascii_string' is your routers > encryption key represented in Ascii. The 's:' tells the system the Key is > in Ascii OR > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX # where the key is > represented as Hex digits > > You can always change the parameters on the fly using the command line > command 'iwconfig' See 'man iwconfig' > > derek
Hi Derek, USERCTL is user control of the device to start and stop it and as I'm the only user it's my lazy way around it. Now that you mention it though it's better to leave that to root. And I'll have another looks at the man pages for iwconfig. It was near midnight the last time I looked and my brain was half fried by then. :-) ttfn John -- This communication is sent to you from a Microsoft free computer running Mandriva Linux 2005 LE. There are no virii, worms, spyware or other nasties in this email.
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