Getting a wireless card to work play with debian
Ok, so I'm trying to get an SMC2602W 802.11b PCI card to work on my debian 3.0
install using the hard drive of version of knoppix on desktop machine. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. The windows box particpates on the network just
fine, so I know that's not an issue.
Others have mentioned that this does not require PCMCIA support, just the
various wireless tools and the right driver. I have confirmed that this card
uses the ADM8211 chipset which is supported by drivers downloaded from
http://www.admtek.com.tw/. I've installed various wireless tools like iwconfig
and they communicate with the card just fine. I THINK the card even tries to
tell me that it's getting a good signal (iwconfig link quality is 95).
How do I tell debian to tell the card to grab an IP address from the gateway
(192.168.1.1) and start routing traffic? ifconfig shows lo and the hardware at
eth2
and /etc/network/options has ip_forward=no,
/etc/network/interfaces contains
auto lo eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
wireless_essid linksys
wireless_mode Managed
gateway 192.168.1.1
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