wireless help newbie
Steve Cowles
steve at stevecowles.com
Sun Jan 4 02:15:55 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 19:40, Mike Watson wrote:
> 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?
If the NIC "Type" is listed a "Wireless" when you run
redhat-config-network, then you will see a "Wireless Settings" Tab when
you edit the device settings.
>
> 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.
My wep keys are stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth#
where the # sign is replaced with your device number. i.e. eth0 or eth1
Steve Cowles
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