configure a wifi interface
Yohann Desquerre
yohann.desquerre at wanadoo.fr
Wed Jul 7 22:44:48 UTC 2004
Satish Balay wrote:
>
>
> 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
reading that i wonder why the /etc/modules.conf has been replaced by
/etc/modprobe.conf ( is it due to 2.6?)
> /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
>
>
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