On Saturday 30 July 2005 04:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: > 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 I believe that METRIC=0 should be METRIC =1 or 5 or such but not 0. and also my ifcfg-wlan0 file does not have the ESSID=any or netmare or whatever I call my network in quotes, so that appears a bit out of the ordinary. must be about there. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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