On Monday 29 August 2005 21:19, Alan Ianson wrote: <snip> > > Thanks for the tip. I did go buy this card and built the madwifi package > and it seems to work quite well. Looking back I think the 3com card was > also working, I just didn't know how to configure debian to get it up and > running. I have an open unencrypted linkup to the ap right now so I need to > set it up with a bit more security. Can you give me any pointers on how to > set that up? Where do I put that config? Does it go under ath0 in > /etc/network/interfaces? > > I need to get straight in my head how to configure wireless in debian. I > seem to have it working now, but I'm not sure if I can do it again.. ;)
Yes, you can put it in /etc/network/interfaces. The stanza might look something like iface home-wireless inet dhcp wireless-essid your essid wireless-mode managed wireless-channel 2 wireless-key 1111-2222-3333-4444-AAAA-BBBB-CC Don't put quotes around your ESSID. You'll need the 'wireless-key' if you're using WEP. See man iwconfig for the full list of wireless configuration options. All the options defined in there go preceded by a "wireless-" if they're used in the interfaces file. To bring the adapter up using that particular configuration run as root $ ifup ath0=home-wireless where ath0 is your device's name. You can also have alternate configurations. For instance iface work-wireless inet static address 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 wireless-essid work wireless-mode managed wireless-channel 2 wireless-key off and use it with $ ifup ath0=work-wireless for more details check man interfaces and man iwconfig. If you move around a bit and really want to get fancy look here: http://arstechnica.com/columns/linux/linux-20040413.ars/2 You can apparently set up your laptop to automatically detect which network is available and choose the appropriate adapter configuration. I haven't tried it myself (yet!). Hope that helps. Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
