Re: Automating wifi setup
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Chris wrote:
> Debian unstable. 3com OfficeConnect 11g card together with CVS
> ndiswrapper (need CVS for Version 2.0 card).
i'm not sure if 3com uses prism54 or not ... but if it does,
you should use it instead of ndiswrapper ( last resort )
http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php
http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/hostap-0.0.4.tar.gz or newer
> Oct 13 10:47:56 chris kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
> Oct 13 10:47:58 chris pci.agent[17828]: prism54: loaded successfully
you probably wantot use prism drivers instead of ndis
> In /etc/network/interfaces I have:
>
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless_essid MyESSID
> wireless_mode Managed
> wireless_key MyWEPKey
you might need more options
> ifconfig wlan0 up brings the i/face up with these settings - no essid
> - no key - and no IPv4.
yup
> Follow that with:
>
> iwconfig wlan0 essid MyESSID
> iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> iwconfig wlan0 key MyWEPKey
> dhclient wlan0
setup the wlan0 interface exactly the sameway as eth0 interfaces
with the exception of new wireless options
> I've read around some - but as always - FAQs/URLs welcome :-)
http://www.linux-wireless.org/Wireless/Install-HOWTO/
- look at "other"
c ya
alvin
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