Re: IP addresses for 802.11 PCMCIA cards?

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Grant" == Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:

    Grant> Can somebody explain to me where the IP address is supposed
    Grant> to go for wireless PCMCIA cards?

    Grant> I've put it in /etc/network/interfaces as eth2, but then
    Grant> you have to comment out the ifup and ifdown lines in
    Grant> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts or the card is configured twice,
    Grant> and the second time breaks things.

    Grant> Are IP addresses for all PCMCIA devices supposed to go in
    Grant> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts?

    Grant> I've looked at the wireless HOWTO, but it doesn't even
    Grant> mention network.opts or wireless.opts, so it's either way
    Grant> out of date or written for a completely different set of
    Grant> tools.

If you are running Woody you don't need to do anything other than
update /etc/interfaces/networks if your card can be configured with
iwconfig. Just put the iwconfig paramaters in /etc/network/interfaces
with the word "wireless_" in front of the parameter name (like
"iwconfig_essid" and so on). Other than that, everything is standard
/etc/network/interfaces syntax for setting IP as static/dhcp etc.

The pcmcia-cs package was revised many moons ago to do this for Debian
systems.

Cheers!
Shyamal