On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:50, Simon Ree wrote: > Hi, > > Works great with the iwconfig and the hermes.conf file. I had to add > the the following to: > > wireless.opts------------------------------------------------ > # Activate with "cardctl scheme linksys" > > # Pick up any Access Point, should work on most 802.11 cards > linksys,*,*,*) > INFO="Home Wireless" > ESSID="linksys" > ;; > > # Linksys WPC11 v3 > *,*,*,A9:47:99:*) > INFO="Linksys WPC11 v3" > ESSID="linksys" > RATE="11M auto" > ;; > > hermes.conf--------------------------------------------- > > card "Linksys WPC11 v3" > manfid 0x0274, 0x1613 > bind "orinoco_cs" > > I use a shell script to activate the card and set my 128 key. Should be > easier than this, it seems mandrake is ignoring the problem.
Nope. Read archives. Mandrake (in common with some other distros) doesn't parse the wireless.opts file. Instead, there are wireless keys for the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files (where ethX is eth0, eth1, eth2 etc). If you set WIRELESS_ESSID="yourESSID" and WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="yourkey" in this file then Mandrake will parse them when bringing the connection up (which it ought to do once cardmgr recognises the card). With the correct settings in this file on my laptop, when I boot or plug the WLAN card in, the connection is brought up and the key is set, and everything works. Neato. :) -- adamw
