Patrick Nelson wrote: ----------------->>>> Art Ross Drew Hunt wrote:
> Mandrake 8.1 with a LinkSys WPC11 (~$100) and wlan (www.linux-wlan.org) > drivers. No complaints. You'll need an access point for the lab, either a > linux box with wireless set to masq or one from a vendor. I use LinkSys > 4-port wireless Cable/DSL/Wireless aP with integrated firewall (~$200). > Works fine and has an easy web-based interface. > > Drew > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Art Ross > > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 7:29 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Wireless networking > > > > > > Our department teaches a Fundamentals of Linux class. This class has > > grown in popularity to the point where our networked lab stations needs > > to be increased. In order to get the additional network connections we > > would have to go through an enormous amount of paperwork and delays. > > This won't work for the Winter quarter offering. We can bring in > > additional network connections from a switch by dropping the lines from > > the ceiling but this gets messy and difficult to manage. We thought > > that wireless networking for the lab would be neater and we also could > > isolate the lab on a subnet with a gateway behind the access point for > > the wireless. > > Does anyone know how well Linux works with wireless and what products > > will work best with RedHat or maybe Mandrake? If this is a terrible > > idea, let me know. I want to hear the truth. Our department can afford > > the equipment as long as individual items are less than $500. Thanks for the link to the linux-wlan project. We'll research our position more and hopefully find an economical solution. ----------------->>>> OMG, I had tried this with a Melco Buffalo PCMCIA card (WLI-PCM-L11) in the past and for some reason didn't get connected. Not sure if I was in a hurry then but just didn't get it working. Saw the link above and decided to just look into it. So I went to techworks.com (where I purchased our AirStation and PCMCIA cards) which pointed to buffalotech.com (or something like that) and found that they don't support Linux (<--brilliant, just brilliant), but they had a URL to the Jean Tourrilhes's HP supported site (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan.html). Started reading and he made it sound easy so again I plugged in my wireless card and fired it up. No connection to the AirStation on bootup (expected). The tool iwconfig (part of the wireless tool kit, standard on RH72) showed the device connected to eth0. So I used iwconfig to set the essid, the mode, the rate, and the key. Then pinged the ip of the access point (AirStation) and nearly died when the pings came through. It didn't survived a reboot, but I followed information to /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and found the section for my card (it was actually listed can you believe it? How often does that happen?) edited the variables vales for essid, mode, rate, and key. Then did a /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop and a /etc/init.d/pcmcia start and checked my connectivity --> connected. Rebooted and this time it survived the reboot. Yeah! Stoked! That was it my last reason to keep MS on my laptop... Just repartitioned the fat32 to e3fs and incorporated it as my /var! And I thought this day wasn't going good! Ha! _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
