--On Wednesday, October 02, 2002 17:19:22 -0500 Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
Can somebody explain to me where the IP address is supposed to go for wireless PCMCIA cards? I've put it in /etc/network/interfaces as eth2, but then you have to comment out the ifup and ifdown lines in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts or the card is configured twice, and the second time breaks things. Are IP addresses for all PCMCIA devices supposed to go in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts?
Not necessarily I think, the version of the pcmcia-cs I have (3.1.33-6) has a modification on the end of the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file which shows it can use the /etc/network/interfaces file - the bit you commented out in fact.
I personally didn't use the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file, I do now, but I'm doing weird/stupid things now.
I currently have a slightly broken setup at the moment, but something like this used to work:
(in /etc/network/interfaces)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.1.2.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.1.2.0
broadcast 10.1.2.255
gateway 10.1.2.1
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid "essid"
wireless_key 1234-5678-12
when I didn't have wep on (I was just playing with it) I could use
tools like laptop-netconf quite well to automatically configure the
network on the laptop.
I've looked at the wireless HOWTO, but it doesn't even mention network.opts or wireless.opts, so it's either way out of date or written for a completely different set of tools.
I think the docs could probably be a little clearer in places, I'm not going to complain though because I'm pretty sure I couldn't do a better job ;)
Regards, Sid