On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 17:54, engage wrote: > I've been trying to figure out why wireless seems to behave so weird on both > RedHat and Mandrake. This has been an on-going problem. I got rid of RedHat > because I've had better success with Mandrake. I'm currently running ML 9.0 > on my server and 9.1 on the notebook. > > On the server box, I'm using a Cisco Aironet 350 for my internet (not > intranet) connection. It usually works OK but on some reboots or network > restarts, the configuration changes and an old SSID shows up. I once used MCC > to configure the parameters so I'm wondering if MCC created config files > other than /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. > > On the notebook, I'm running a Netgear MA401. It works great when booted to > the Windows 2000 partition but I've had a lot of trouble getting the card to > use WEP on the Linux partition. I got WEP working but a reboot or network > restart won't enable the WEP. If I execute the command iwconfig eth0 key > <somekey>, the WEP works. I have WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="somekey" line in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and I have the key listed in > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. I remarked out the line from ifcfg-eth0 but that > didn't help. Then I unremarked that line and removed the key value in > wireless.opts. That didn't help. The only way I've been able to get the WEP > to consistently work is by executing the appropriate iwconfig command in > /etc/rc.local (that doesn't help on a network reboot though). I plan to > eventually get away from WEP and use VPN instead. Until I learn more about > VPN, I still need to find a way to make my system consistent with WEP. If a > firmware upgrade comes out for this card so that I can use WPA, I might go > with that. It depends on which encryption method is easiest to configure and > which is the most secure. > > Actually, configuring wireless stuff on Linux is a mystery. I haven't seen any > documentation that clearly explains how to install and configure wireless > cards. BTW, I've even tried using linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 with no real success (I > continue to have problems with WEP). > > As time goes by, I get closer to a "correct" solution to my problem. But, why > can't there be a step-by-step instruction for installing wireless devices? At > least provide a complete list of configuration files that details their use > and how they interact with other files. For example, how does > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 interact with > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts? Should I configure > ifcfg-eth0 with the wireless parameters or should I configure wireless.opts? > Without experimenting (and possibly crashing your system), how is one to know > which is correct? See what I mean?
Hi, I have just gotten a cisco aironet 350, but I actually use a orinoco internal mini-pci card for my home network now. I have the issue of multiple networks in my area that I sometimes pickup instead of mine, and often I would get switched to one instead of mine. I also enabled wep. to do it consistantly, I put all the configs in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file. it looks like the following. I actually use the AP="" param too to get it to lock onto my AP. I am running on mandrake 9.1. I also have the cisco card in the pcmcia slot, but that is mostly for war driving and fooling around with kismet. DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=no MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=any.domain.com NEEDHOSTNAME=no ESSID="MY_ESSID" AP="AP_MAC_ADDRESS" KEY="FIRST KEY [1] key SECOND KEY [2] key THIRD KEY [3] key FOURTH KEY [4]"
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