Wireless Under SuSE 8.1

[kbb0927@cs.com]

David,

Thanks for the info. What did not come out clearly is that SuSE8.1 automa-
gically does this for you, but it didn't work. The only way to get the 
eth-pcmcia card recognized as wlan was to symlink it. I tried putting
the info in wireless.opts, no go. It keeps telling me it cannot find
an interface, no matter what I put. I read and followed the SxS from Jascek
while I was using 8.0 and it worked like a charm until about 3 weeks ago
it went south, so I decided this would be a go time to go up to 8.1 and
see if it would work under it.

Also, I dunno if 128-bit key is hindering me or not.  I have not tried to
configure from the command line as you suggest, but I will give it a try.
BTW, I am just a novice linux user, so some things, I just don't know how 
to do, but I have been on this list for a long time and gotten a lot of
GOOD info, SxS, and the like, so I really appreciate your and everyone
else's response.

Best Regards,

Keith B>

"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

>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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