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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