Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:20:01AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: > (On Solaris it is "hme" instead of "eth" as a standard.) Actually their was no standard on Solaris. The interface name was dependent on the driver. hme just occurred most often because Solaris on Sparc's generally had NICs that used the same driver. If you run Solaris on X86 it seems like every machine has a different naming convention... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Before you set out for revenge dig two graves." - Chinese Saying
Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Terrence Oblak wrote: TO> I was planning on doing the following, again any input would be greatly TO> appreciated: TO> TO> Write a script that would: TO> 1) Shutdown eth0 device TO> 2) Copy the correct ifcgf-eth0.xx script on top of TO> ifcgf-eth0 TO> 3) Restart the eth0 device TO> 4) Restart the service to obtain a new IP address TO> TO> Is possible? Or is there a better way of accomplishing what I want to do? Easiest is to create: ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1 And use 0 for home and 1 for work. Linux doesn't care what you call your interfaces, you could call them "yabba32" or something, but "eth" is the Linux "standard" naming convention. You can even have a ifcfg-eth2 for the built-in NIC. (On Solaris it is "hme" instead of "eth" as a standard.) -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless
I would like to thank everyone for the replies. It worked, my portable is truely portable. I spent 4 hours researching on the internet and trying different settings. I must have missed something somewhere. I do have one more question: I have access to a wireless network at home and at work so I was planning on creating two ifcgf-eth0 scripts: 1) ifcgf-etho.home 2) ifcgf-eth0.work I was planning on doing the following, again any input would be greatly appreciated: Write a script that would: 1) Shutdown eth0 device 2) Copy the correct ifcgf-eth0.xx script on top of ifcgf-eth0 3) Restart the eth0 device 4) Restart the service to obtain a new IP address Is possible? Or is there a better way of accomplishing what I want to do? Thanks, Terrence Oblak
Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:17:08PM -0400, Anthony Procaccini wrote: > Hmm - I wasn't aware of the hanging boot aspect of airport access. Is > there any way around this? I might boot into Linux at work as well. > If I have a network cable attached, will it still hang since it can > see the eth1 connection? Actually it's not really airport that has the issue. It's DHCP. If your method of getting addresses is DHCP it will attempt to get an address. If it can't get an address it will wait an annoyingly long period of time till it times out. Couple solutions turn off the ONBOOT and manually bring up the interface ala ifup eth0 or Just remember to disable the interface before going somewhere where you don't have wireless. If you use DHCP on one interface and don't disable it but have another interface that comes up fine the one with DHCP will still hang. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Before you set out for revenge dig two graves." - Chinese Saying
Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Anthony Procaccini wrote: AP> Hmm - I wasn't aware of the hanging boot aspect of airport access. Is AP> there any way around this? I might boot into Linux at work as well. AP> If I have a network cable attached, will it still hang since it can AP> see the eth1 connection? in the cfg file change to ONBOOT=no and then just do "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ipup eth1" when you want wireless access. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless
> > >And it should work. In the future you won't have to do either it >should just come up when you boot. But fair warning if you're away from >a access point your boot will hang while it tries to get an address via >DHCP. > >-- >Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://ben.reser.org Hmm - I wasn't aware of the hanging boot aspect of airport access. Is there any way around this? I might boot into Linux at work as well. If I have a network cable attached, will it still hang since it can see the eth1 connection? TIA! Tony Procaccini --
Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0600, Terrence Oblak wrote: > Could someone give me detailed instructions for getting my wireless > connection working? The more detailed the instructions the better, please > remember that Linux is very new to me, so something that might be obvious to > you probably isn't to me. Actually it's pretty easy. Edit /etc/modules.conf Add a line like this: alias eth0 airport (note you can set eth0 to whatever interface you like). I use the following lines: alias eth0 airport alias eth1 gmac That puts my airport on eth0 and my internal ethernet of my Titanium on eth1. Make sure you've installed wireless-tools-20-4mdk. It's on the installation CD, just install it via: rpm -Uvh wireless-tools-20-4mdk.ppc.rpm Create or edit your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (assuming that your airport is on eth0). Put something like the following: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=encryptionkeyforwep WIRELESS_ESSID=nameofaccesspoint For the encryption key if you're using a text password as a key use something like this: s:abcde Otherwise if it's just entering the hex key. At this point I'd probably reboot to make sure that the airport shows on the right ethernet interface. If you're sure it already is then you should be able to just do: modprobe airport Then ifup eth0 And it should work. In the future you won't have to do either it should just come up when you boot. But fair warning if you're away from a access point your boot will hang while it tries to get an address via DHCP. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Before you set out for revenge dig two graves." - Chinese Saying
