On Wednesday 02 April 2003 09:21 pm, Dave Sherman wrote:
>engage wrote:
>> Well, I did a fresh install for ML 9.1 on my notebook since an upgrade
>> from 9.0 broke stuff. (Reboot still doesn't work, though).
>>
>> Anyway, how do I change the configuration to use a shared key instead of
>> an open system setting (for WEP, of course)? ML 9.1 configured the pcmcia
>> wireless card as eth0. I believe that I need to modify
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 but I'm not sure of what
>> variable to use. Is this info suppose to be part of WIRELESS_ENC_KEY? I
>> tried to add the shared key parameter to that variable but it turned off
>> WEP.
>
>Here's what my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file contains:
>
>TYPE=Wireless
>DEVICE=eth1
>HWADDR=
>BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>ONBOOT=yes
>MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
>DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostname
>NEEDHOSTNAME=no
>ESSID=foobar
>CHANNEL=6
>MODE=Managed
>KEY=B21B-51E3-3A
>
>Works perfectly for me. I've got a Linksys WPC-11 wireless PC card.

Thanks for the reply but it didn't help solve my problem.



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