Not sure how to do this - any help would be appreciated (wireless lan)

[Steven Haigh]

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 10:08 +0000, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've found how to get the inbuilt WLAN to work on my Toshiba A10 by
> following the advice at
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/2276/sort/2/cat/all/page/1
> 
> The problem is two fold here. The first is that I could do with having
> the three modules autoloaded on boot each time I fire up the machine. I
> know I can put them into mod* in /etc, but it looks like the device
> needs 3 modules, so setting something like alias orinoco_cs sit0 can't
> happen (unless all 3 modules can be put on the alias or something like
> that).
> 
> Is it just a case of adding modprobe hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs and
> then aliasing orinoco_cs to sit0?
> 
> Secondly, I'm a bit bemused on how to use iwconfig. Can I just select
> auto (the man page looks like I can) which will just pick everything
> that is open up?
> 
> Before someone says this is the test list - yes, I know it is. The
> machine the wlan is on is a laptop running rawhide so the answer may not
> be the same for the testing kernel and setup as it is for FC < 5

NetworkManager is your friend. Load your wifi drivers (but don't
configure the card) and let NetworkManager do the rest... Enable it
during the boot process and you'll see what I mean when you're in
gnome/kde.