On July 30, 2005 02:01 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > John Wilson wrote: > > Hi Mikkel, > > > > ifcfg-wlan0 is pointing to the MAC address of the hardware so that isn't > > it. I did remove a line that had no variable set and I'll see if that > > does any good. > > > > I'm keeping on beating my head against that brick wall. :-) > > > > ttfn > > > > John > > John, > You have lost me here. What do you mean when you say ifcfg-wlan0 is > pointing to the MAC address? If you are using "HWADDR=<MAC address>", > you still need the correct "DEVICE=<something>" statment. > > The "DEVICE=<something>" statment in the ifcfg-wlan0 file is what > determins what device is being set. If it is something like > "DEVICE=eth0" instead of "DEVICE=wlan0", then you will get the type of > errors you have reported. > > Here is one that works: > DEVICE=wlan0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=no > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no > WIRELESS_MODE=Managed > WIRELESS_ESSID="AP_ROUTER" > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=1234-5678-6804-3A0D-BDCB-487E-00 > WIRELESS_IWCONFIG="key restricted" > NEEDHOSTNAME=no > > It is for a loptop cardbus card. For a built-in card, you would probably > want to change ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes. > > You may want to read the section in > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.61.1/sysconfig.txt about ifcfg-<device> files. > > Mikkel
Hi, What I'm saying is that it seems to be reading the mac address of my device. And yes, it's a built in card. I'll make the changes to the wlan config you suggest and see what happens. Thanks! ttfn John -- This communication is sent to you from a Microsoft free computer running Mandriva Linux 2005 LE. There are no virii, worms, spyware or other nasties in this email.
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