On July 30, 2005 02:01 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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
I fixed it up and the file now reads: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes #HWADDR=00:11:f5:61:56:dc METRIC=0 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no #USERCTL=no WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID="yrr18itta3" DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient NEEDHOSTNAME=no #PEERDNS=yes #PEERYP=no #PEERNTPD=no The DEVICE=wlan0 was always there. Let me try this and see. The other issue was that the ESSID wasn't contained in quotes and that was set in the wizard in MCC that way. So I'm wondering about that too now. If that has messed this up then I guess a bug report is in order. 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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