Wireless Under SuSE 8.1

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:52:05 -0400
begin  kbb0927 at cs.com spewed forth:

> 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.

exactly _what_ are you symlinking?  

When you insert the pcmcia card, you should hear "beep ... beep".  The
first beep means cardmanager recognized a card insertion, the second beep
means the driver has been installed.  When the driver is installed, you
will have available either an eth# (eth0, eth1, etc) or a wlan# (wlan0,
wlan1, etc).  You just use that.

Your commands for ifconfig and iwconfig use this eth or wlan device as the
first argument.

You don't have to have a key.  All will work without it.

If you're running two linux boxes that are talking to each other you must
use ad-hoc mode.  If you have an AP you're talking to, you'll probably
need managed mode.

The rest is per my previous post.

[snip]

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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