wireless help newbie

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Mike Watson wrote:

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> On Sunday 28 December 2003 11:20 am, Stefan Hoelldampf wrote:
> > George Bennett wrote:
> > > again, the green light on the card is lit, but still no internet
> > > connection.  Also, while I am still a newbie, I wonder if the
> > > setting as ethernet type (on the main network config screen) is
> > > correct.  Should it say wireless?  Since the way it is now, I
> > > cannot get any screen to enter a SSID, key etc (though I turned off
> > > security on  my router/gateway as you asked).
> > >
> > > Any help anyone could add would be greatly appreciated.  I truly
> > > dislike M$ and this is the last step for me to get a clean getaway
> > > from Gates and company.
> >
> > Start "System Settings -> Network", choose "eth1", press the
> > "Edit"-Button in the toolbar.
> > The third tab should be called something like "Wireless Settings"
> > where you can change your SSID.
> >
> > Did you configure a route for your wireless card?
> > What does "route" (as root) say?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > 	Stefan
>
> Stefan,
>
> I just installed a Netgear MA311 today.  I didn't see any tab for
> "Wireless Settings" such as you described above.  I had to use
> iwconfig.
>
> Would you please repeat how to find the gui frontend to iwconfig?

Main menu -> System Settings -> Network.

If there is a listing for the new interface on the "devices" tab and it's
not of type "wireless", delete it, then click new and choose "wireless
connection".  You may have to delete the entry for that device in the
"hardware" tab and add it before doing the above, if it does not have
the correct driver.

>
> Thanks.
>
> Also, has anyone had any problems retaining the wireless info.  I'm
> running encrypted and I have to enter the key each time I boot up.  The
> device appears ready, but the wireless NIC will not communicate until I
> re-enter the encryption key via iwconfig, then commit the data.
>
> Anyone else seen this?

No, but I configured with the GUI tool.  The key ends up in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/key-eth*.  It is correctly read by ifup,
even though there may be permission errors reported.

HTH.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs