config info location in Mandrake

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:31:50 -0800 (PST)
> begin  Keith Morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> spewed forth:
> > 
> > 
> > To Bill, I've done different permutations of find and grep with no luck
> > so far.  I've keyed in on using ESSID and am trying understand how ifup
> > gets the parameter to pass to iwconfig.  But I still don't know where
> > ifup gets those parameters from.
> 
> I'll stick my $.02 in here.  I'm not sure what Mandrake does w/ their ifup
> script, but if the pcmcia stuff sources /etc/pcmcia at all, you should
> edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts for this configuration option.
> 
> If you have a /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file, somewhere around line 44
> you'll need to comment out two lines that look like:
> *,*,*,*)
>    ;;
> 
> Then find your particular card and farther down and uncomment and edit the
> appropriate options (like ESSID, MODE, KEY, etc.).
> 
> Then let the ifup script handle the IP stuff.
> 


Since all the work I have done with Linux and wireless cards has been in 
the pcmcia realm, that's what I would have expected too.  In fact, the 
first place I checked was /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts.  No go.   The file's 
date stamped matched with when the system was originally installed with 
Mandrake.  The wireless card though is not a pcmcia device, but rather a 
pci card.  Linksys WMP11, IIRC.  Based on that, I don't think pcmcia 
is/was used to support this card.    

It's just plain weird.