configure a wifi interface

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Yohann Desquerre wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone may give an url where i can find tutorial on how to configure a 
> wifi interface ?
>
>
> or better which files have to be edited  ( i suppose 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip/XXXXX) and an example of this file !!!!

Does the driver get loaded correctly for your wireless device?  What
device is assigned to it? (eth0/eth1/ath0...) Check /etc/modules.conf
(fc1) or /etc/modprobe.conf (fc2) (or try /sbin/iwconfig or
/sbin/lsmod)

Then run redhat-config-network (fc1) or system-config-network (fc2) to
configure the interface. The only 2 additional things (compared to a
wired network) that are reqired are ESSID and KEY (encryption).

If you have a non-'ethXX' device - then you would have to modify the
config files manually (atleast for fc1) and the files would be (for eg
- for ath0)

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-ath0

Satish