On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:10, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 08:20, Frederic Soulier wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've 3 ennoying issues on my laptop: > > > > 1) The possibility to associate an interface (ethx) to a PCMCIA card > > does not seem to exist. I've been trying to find info on the "Track > > network card id" option you get during install without success. > > If such an option exist, how can it be activated? > > If anyone knows, please tell me too :)
Well, It seems the "Track network card id" is an elusive option to say the least and I do not think it actually works at all! Can any good cook out there prove me wrong? Luckily, since the config pbms I had with my wireless network card have been fixed it sort of fixed this pbm as well. Basically, I now have eth1 for my 3Com ethernet (wired) PCMCIA card and wlan0 (instead of eth2) for my SMC 2632W wireless PCMCIA card. Thanks to the wlan-ng utilities I installed, when I insert the 3Com card it uses eth1 and when I insert the SMC card it picks up wlan0 (and it all works whatever the order I insert the cards). The only ennoyance is that it's always the old default route which is kept so you may still have to ifdown ethx then ifup ethy to get the default route you want (example, when you are using your wired network and want to switch to your wireless network, the default route will still use your wired ethx... not good) (or you can hack the /etc/sysconfig/network to do something else for the default route). That's an area that needs improvement to make it seamless to insert/remove PCMCIA network cards without the need to drop down to the console and apply some magic :) > > 2) I've got a SMC 2632W Wireless card which works fine without > > encryption. Activating 128bits WEP is a no-go. > > Has anybody had success using WEP with this card? > > Don't have that card, but what driver are you using? You need prism2_cs > or orinoco_cs for 128-bit WEP, nothing else will work. With Orinoco, use > iwconfig to set the key, or add a line like this to > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX: > > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="<key>" > > As a hex string with no spacing. > > > 3) What is the status for wlan-ng (prism2 stuff) and LM9.0? > > Can wlan-ng be installed alongside LM9.0 and a normal distribution of > > pcmcia-cs? > > A fairly recent (though not current) set of wlan-ng drivers is actually > included in 9.0. The support software, though, isn't. Someone has > packaged the necessary utils and posted the location to this list > before. Search the archives. Then you need to do a bit of fiddling > around to make everything work, since the wlan-ng drivers use wlanX > while everything else uses ethX. Yep Aaron posted a message with the location of the prims2 utilities he packaged himself. I tried it and it all worked fine incl. WEP128. I also replied on both cooker and expert lists. Here are the location of the RPMs again (note: in mozilla I have the plugin rpnp.so which takes care of RealPlayer Plugin Metafile (*.rpm) and I couldn't download those rpm files...) http://users.erols.com/peromsik/prism2-utils-0.1.14-1mdk.i586.rpm http://users.erols.com/peromsik/prism2-utils-0.1.14-1mdk.src.rpm /Fred
