Hi,
concerning madwifi:
Check if you have an Atheros chip:
# lspci | grep Atheros
04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
and the madwifi modules are loaded:
# lsmod | grep ath
ath_rate_sample 15232 1
ath_pci 87204 0
wlan 180708 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 195536 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
You should see the Atheros card as ath0. Just create a file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0.
In my case:
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=
CHANNEL=6
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
You can remove the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wifi0 file, if
there is one.
Check out iwconfig:
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Now (important!!) you have to activate the card with:
# ifconfig ath0 up
I put "ifconfig ath0 up" into /etc/rc.local to activate the card every
time at bootup.
Now you can do a scan:
# iwlist ath0 scan
Or use system-config-network
Or as Troy said, use NetworkManager
Hope this helps
Urs
Johan Mares wrote:
Yesterday I installed SL5 at home, was smoother install then FC6.
But I have 2 questions:
- installing madwifi was just a click, my wireless card (atheros
chipset) was found. But nowhere I can find where I can configure the
settings for wireless connection. I have done it dozens of times on
different versions and flavors of Ubuntu via user interface or file.
What is the equivalent of Ubuntu's /etc/network/interfaces file in SL ?
I can see the wireless card called wifi0 in the network config user
interface. When I google most solutions start with download madwifi,
make, make install, ...
- Xen : if I want to start experimenting with Xen, where do I start:
Xensource documentation, Red Hat documentation or is there SL
documentation ?
Thanx,
johan
