As if I don't ask enough! On my FC1 laptop, I have to put in iwconfig eth1 essid mynet key 12345abcdef678g9 ifconfig eth1 up dhclient eth1
How do I get it to save this? On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:33, Roy Vestal wrote: > Another question, I'm using the orinoco drivers under linux, but I was > wondering if I should use the wlan_ng drivers instead. again under FC1, > this card works with WEP on orinoco driver. > > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:29, Roy Vestal wrote: > > I have tried this, but when I do dhclient eth1 it never connects. I can > > connect to an open one though. > > > > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:49, Sam Kalat wrote: > > > I had a bit of pain getting my wireless card (Dell TrueMobile 1150) to work > > > under Debian after relying on 'neat' in RedHat. My memory is a bit fuzzy but > > > I think this is what it took: > > > > > > in /etc/network/interfaces, setup to use DHCP: > > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > > > > > in /etc/modules.conf, the module I use (previously was modprobing it every > > > time I used the card): > > > alias eth1 orinoco_cs > > > > > > At a loss for where else to put it, I made a small script to call (well, with > > > an actual key and SSID): > > > #!/bin/sh > > > iwconfig eth1 key 0000000000000000000000000 > > > iwconfig eth1 essid "MySSID" > > > > > > I run that and do 'ifup eth1' and it works. I bet there is a more elegant and > > > approved method, but I didn't know where to look for one. Does that help? > > > > > > Sam > > > > > > > > > On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:12 pm, Roy Vestal wrote: > > > > OK, I know I've bugging the crap out of everyone about WEP so I'll do it > > > > again. :P > > > > > > > > Anyway, I have an old Fedora Core laptop that I've installed Debian > > > > Testing, cause I want to learn "the other side". Here's what I did on my > > > > FC laptop (I have more than one) and it got the wireless working: > > > > > > > > iwconfig eth1 essid mynetwork key 12345abcde678fgh > > > > ifconfig eth1 up > > > > dhclient eth1 > > > > > > > > I STILL haven't been able to get the Debian box to connect. I get > > > > access point address 44:44:44:44:44:44, which according to the howto's > > > > I've seen this means it can't see my access point. I'm litterally > > > > sitting next to it to make that not a problem. > > > > > > > > I know this laptop with this NIC connects to this access point under > > > > Windows and FC1. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the help guys and gals. > > > > Roy -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
