wireless wpc54g
John Dangler
jdangler at atlantic.net
Sun Jul 18 20:55:39 UTC 2004
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Stephen Tate
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:34 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: wireless wpc54g
>I am attempting to configure my wireless wpc54g card and router using
Fedora. I'm >searching google and other locations for drivers/instructions.
(1) Get ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
(2)make install
ndiswrapper -i WPC54G/lsbcmnds.inf
(3) Next up is creating an interface configuration file in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0:
MODE=Managed
ESSID=wifi.mfd-consult.dk
KEY=<26 hex characters for the 128 bit WEP key specific to my AP>
DEVICE=wlan0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Wireless
(4) Then came the tricky part: The WPC54G is a PCMCIA card, but on my Redhat
Linux 9 installation, the networking is set to start up before the PCMCIA
interface is initialized. To overcome this problem, I changed the chkconfig
parameters for three of the startup scripts (the NFS script failed to work
properly if not started after the network):
pcmcia: 21 96
network: 22 90
nfslock: 23 86
(5) After that, I issued the following commands to reset the sequence:
chkconfig pcmcia reset
chkconfig network reset
chkconfig nfslock reset
(6) The only thing missing was to make sure the PCMCIA and NdisWrapper
drivers were loaded on startup, by simulating a card insert event - if
necessary - and forcing the drivers to load:
rmmod ndiswrapper 2>/dev/null
cardctl status | grep "no card" > /dev/null && cardctl insert
modprobe ndiswrapper
That's it, running /etc/init.d/network restart should bring up the wireless
interface, after which I could turn off the ethernet connection by setting
ONBOOT=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
I found this on an archive a while back... Hope this may help you.
Regards,
John
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