Howdy, I had yesterday at last some time to play with my laptops (HP OmniBook 6100) built in WLAN (Actiontec) card that is based on Prism2 chip.
The wlan-ng project supports the chip, but I think using Jouni Malinen's Host AP driver from http://hostap.epitest.fi/ is cleaner approach. So I downloaded the Prism2-2002-05-19.tar.gz package built and installed the hostap_pci driver. BTW, thats's really something would be nice to see in upcoming releases. Added /etc/modules.conf line alias wlan0 hostap_pci then created a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp #IPADDR="" #NETMASK="" USERCTL=no ONBOOT=no PEERDNS=no # Wireless specifics, see man page iwconfig(8) for details MODE=managed ESSID=foobar #NWID= #FREQ= #CHANNEL= #SENS= #RATE= KEY="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX" #RTS= #FRAG= #IWCONFIG= #SPYIPS= #IWPRIV= with appropriate values the "ifup wlan0" seems to acivate wlan0 interface nicely, but there are some questions I would like to see answered that the neither of following documentation does not explain http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/sysconfig.html file:/usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.67/sysconfig.txt The question is the information about /etc/sysconfig/networking stuff that appeared to 7.x and how it can be used? Especially I'm trying to understand how the Red Hat engineers thougth the WLAN interface could be configured against AP:s with different profiles for MODE/ESSID/KEY etc. I've played before more with PCMCIA WLAN cards, but the built-in PCI card seem to work nice too with appropriate driver, just wondering if there would be a nice way to set up profiles to select with on WLAN activation. Any links, hints or info I have missed would be appreciated. TIA, :-) riku -- [ This .signature intentionally left blank ] _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
