Wireless Under SuSE 8.1

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 06:33:26 -0400
begin  kbb0927 at cs.com spewed forth:

> Guys,
> 
> Can we get back on subject here. I started this thread asking about
> help/experience with the built-in wireless setup under SuSE 8.1 and
> it has digressed to cups vs lprng.
> 
> Could people please offer suggestions about wireless. Again, I have
> got the card recognized, symlinked to eth-pcmcia-0, but it doesn't
> see the WAP. I will keep trying and post a "How I did it" once/if I
> get it going.
> 

I don't understand the "symlinked" comment above.

Wireless cards under linux come up as either eth# or wlan#.  You use
ifconfig to configure the card as you would any other ethernet device. 
You then use iwconfig to configure the wireless portion of the card.  So
you can either do this manually or via the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts files.

insert the card.  dmesg will tell you what it is (eth or wlan).
Manual configuration:
ifconfig [eth# | wlan#] 192.168.3.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
192.168.3.255
route add default gw 192.168.3.1

iwconfig [eth# | wlan#] essid home
iwconfig [eth# | wlan#] key s:secrt
iwconfig [eth# | wlan#] mode [ ad-hoc | managed ] (prism 2 and above
understand master if you install the host_ap utilities)
iwconfig [eth# | wlan#] channel # (alternately: iwconfig [eth# | wlan#]
freq 2.4##G)

Automagically:
just configure the appropriate files as listed above.  Read the
instructions in wireless.opts, they're fairly comprehensive.


[snip]

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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