On Friday 29 July 2005 16:07, John Wilson wrote: > This is my ifconfig-wlan0 > DEVICE=wlan0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=yes > HWADDR=00:11:f5:61:56:dc > METRIC=10 > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > USERCTL=yes > WIRELESS_MODE=Auto > WIRELESS_ESSID=yrr18itta3 > DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient > DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.1 > NEEDHOSTNAME=no > PEERDNS=yes > PEERYP=no > PEERNTPD=no > > Now, I'm kinda assuming that the HWADDR shown here is of my card on my > laptop. So where do you set the MAC for the router? I do know that so I > need to know where to set it. > > Thanks again. > > ttfn > > John
You do not need to know the IP address of the Router, just its ESSID name, and you do not even need that since you could tell it to connect to "Any" ESSID. In your configuration the following lines are not necessary HWADDR=00:11:f5:61:56:dc #If you do not specify a MAC address the driver will bind to any compatible wireless card it finds. METRIC=10 # Why should you want to limit your hop count. USERCTL=yes # I do not even know what this does. DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.1 # This is supposed to be a hostname not an IP address and you do not need it anyway. DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient # By default Mandriva will use dhclient PEERYP=no # not needed PEERNTPD=no # not needed What you DO need in your configuration is DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed # Assuming your router is a wireless access point WIRELESS_ESSID=yrr18itta3 # Assuming that really is the ESSID of your router. Check your router config. If you use the string 'any' then it will connect to the strongest signal it finds. WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="s:ascii_string" # if you have encryption enabled on your router you MUST include this parameter where 'ascii_string' is your routers encryption key represented in Ascii. The 's:' tells the system the Key is in Ascii OR WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX # where the key is represented as Hex digits You can always change the parameters on the fly using the command line command 'iwconfig' See 'man iwconfig' derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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