On Sunday 31 July 2005 09:59 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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 Ah, Thanks for that explanation. What about the METRIC number? That should have a value greater than 0 should it not? If 0 is ok then the scripts should be giving him a connection. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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