Re: Wireless PCI Card
Shyamal Prasad, 2002-Sep-27 17:32 -0500:
> It's been a while since I've done this, but with Debian you can put
> the entries in /etc/network/interfaces. Something like this works for
> me on eth1 (my PCMCIA wireless device):
>
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> wireless_essid MyNetwork
> wirelss_key 112233445566 [1]
> wireless_mode Managed
> wireless_nickname mymachine
>
> The standard pcmcia-source package added support for Debian's
> ifup/ifdown commands a while ago. I believe ifup will invoke iwconfig
> on those wireless_* parameters.
>
> I can't remember where I looked all this up. It's been months, and I
> hardly use my laptop these days. But I just booted it up, and yes it
> does work with a Lucent Orinoc PCMCIA card and 2.4.18. It should work
> with the PCI card since the cardbus manager is just invoking ifup on
> eth1 for me.
>
> Cheers!
> Shyamal
That did it!
Thank you very much...jc
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