Finally got around top putting F7 on my lappy & need a radio

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 03 June 2007, David G. Miller wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Since part of this is F7 problems on the lappy, I've also copied this to
>> the fedora list.
>>
>>> >Gene Heskett schrieb:
>>>> >> On Saturday 02 June 2007, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
>>>>> >>> Gene Heskett schrieb:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> >> This seems to have worked except I cannot get it to service DHCP
>>>> >> requests coming in over ath0, or then to allow a packet to go past
>>>> >> even if I give it static addresses.
>>> >
>>> >the following steps are needed. turn the wireless interface you want to
>>> >client mode
>>
>> Since the lappy is the client, and the atheros card in the x86 dd-wrt box
>> is the AP, I've put that in the lappies
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 profile, then did an ifdown
>> wlan0;ifup wlan0, but it rejects that with:
>>
>> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8b06) :
>> 	invalid argument "Client"
>
> From the iwconfig man page:
>
>       mode   Set the operating mode of the device, which depends on the
>network topology. The mode  can  be
>              Ad-Hoc (network composed of only one cell and without
>Access Point), Managed (node connects to
>              a network composed of many Access Points, with roaming),
>Master (the node is the  synchronisa-
>              tion  master  or  acts  as an Access Point), Repeater (the
>node forwards packets between other
>              wireless nodes), Secondary (the node acts as a backup
>master/repeater), Monitor (the  node  is
>              not associated with any cell and passively monitor all
>packets on the frequency) or Auto.
>              Example :
>                   iwconfig eth0 mode Managed
>                   iwconfig eth0 mode Ad-Hoc
>
>Not sure where you're setting mode to "client" but that's not a valid
>value.  Managed tends to work unless you know what you're doing and you
>know why you need one of the other vales.
>
>Cheers,
>Dave
>
Thanks Dave, I'll play with it some more tomorrow.  The avahi-daemon is 
killing me too, so I'm going to read up on that puppy too.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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