Configuring a wireless PCMCIA card

[Net Llama!]

On 05/25/2005 05:11 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Brad De Vries wrote:
>> Hey all, I just received my first (don't laugh) wireless card and
>> router.  I'm using an old IBM ThinkPad running Knoppix off CD as a
>> test case and I'm wondering how to setup the card.
>> 
>> My router has a SSID set and is using WPA-PSK (authorizing with a
>> pre-shared key.)  I can see the iwconfig command can set the ESSID
>> (which I hope is the same as SSID) but I can't find the WPA-PSK stuff.
>> 
>> Any thoughts from anyone on where that's set?
> 
> First, I am no longer considered a guru.
> 
> I picked up a Thinkpad T23 at the start of fall semester.  I struggled 
> for about three weeks trying to get a Belkin wireless card working.  I 
> tried knoppix and installed Suse 9.2 pro (which worked flawlessly and 
> recognized all the special keys and functions.)  I  never got the Belkin 
> card running.  I broke down and ordered an Orinoco Gold card from New 
> Egg and SuSE detected it and started it up just fine.
> 
> I have yet to fix this, but I need to do a strange dance with the 
> network when using wireless.  The internal network adapter 100Base-T 
> (eth0) tries to find a network before the wireless card (eth1).  I end 
> up stopping both cards (ifdown) and then starting just the wireless card 
> (ifup) and all is happy.  (I actually get an IP address but the DNS 
> resolution is borked.)
> 
> Someone smarter than me (easy to find) might be able to get things 
> working.  I spent time with the University ACM chapter and linux 
> bitheads.  We started with ndiswrapper and then got esoteric.  Get the 
> Orinoco Gold card.

I can't speak for suse, but for RH/FC its the same as setting up a 
normal NIC.  Just create a ifcfg-ethX in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts 
and you're good to go.

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