Apologies if this is already known
When going through the drakconnect wizard with a wireless pcmcia card installed (I use Melco with wvlan_cs driver) First the wizard probes the card, and despite correctly identifying the card it still offers up a menu to select a driver. The wvlan_cs driver is not in the list. Pressing 'Previous' allows you to proceed with configuring the wirelesss parameters. :( The list of Wireless parameters can then be filled in : On selecting 'OK' I am then requested to fill in Host/DNS server and Gateway. On selecting 'OK' The file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcgh-eth0 gets rewritten and the wireless parameters are appended to the file. The file then looks like this :- DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.42 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:60:1d:f2:ff:97 WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=8848DBjennings WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:mykey The window then tells me I need to restart the network. I click 'OK' And then I click 'OK' again when it tells me it is going to apply the configuration to my system. At this point I can pull the PCMCIA card out and put it back in again and it all works OK. Note however if I replace the card with a 10/100 LAN card, it does NOT work. :( This is because the wizard has saved the MAC address in the configuration, despite not having been requested to, either during installation, or in the wizard itself. (There is no option to prevent saving MAC address in the wizard) If I edit the file to remove the MAC address hot plugging between wireless and ethernet works fine. :) Now Remember : I still have drakconnect open after having completed the wizard. If I now click 'OK' to close drakconnect. An empty dialogue box appears, goes away, and drakconnect closes. However, when closing it rewrites /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and removes all the Wireless parameters. It also restarts the network, so my card is no longer working. :( My ifcfg-eth0 file is now DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.42 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes I am using drakxtools-1.1.9-11mdk derek
