Dennis Myers wrote: > 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. > Quotes around the entry are optional unless the value has a space in it. Then you have to have the quotes or it is treated as more then one value. The same rules apply as when setting shell varables in a scrip. The ifcfg-<device> files are basicly script files that are sourced by the ifup and ifdown scripts in order to get the different values needed.
Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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