wireless help newbie
Mike Watson
mikew at crucis.net
Sun Jan 4 02:44:28 UTC 2004
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On Saturday 03 January 2004 08:15 pm, Steve Cowles wrote:
> 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
Thanks, I found it. I was double clicking on the device instead of
clicking on "Edit". Old habits...
MIke W
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