Wireless lan?

[aaron at technolounge.org]

Just threw RH 7.3 on my lappy and found that it not only setup my card (DW-650) 
with all the nessicary PCMCIA stuff, but it also was able to find my WAP and 
configure itself, needless to say I was impressed.

A A R O N

Quoting Warren Raquel <warquel at hotmail.com>:

> Tack http://www.linux-wlan.com/ in there as well. My friend said they 
> installed Mandrake and it got set up automagically. I think the last time I
> 
> installed RedHat it got detected at least but didn't know how to set it up.
> 
> I had to do everything manually and the site above worked out fine.
> 
> >From: ME <dugan at passwall.com>
> >Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
> >To: talk at nblug.org
> >Subject: Re: Wireless lan?
> >Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 22:28:12 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> > > How does one setup a wireless lan under RedHat?  Actually, info on any
> > > linux distribution would be helpful.  What files to edit, what software
> > > packages are available, kernel support, etc.
> > >
> > > This isn't for me but for a friend of a friend :)
> >
> >Deja vu!
> >
> >Check into the latest pcmcia-cs tree
> >http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/
> >
> >Check into Wireless tools:
> >http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
> >
> >With wireless tools, pay attention to "iwconfig" for configuring the
> >wireless interface with ESSID/key etc.
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >
> >-ME
> >
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> 
> 
> Warren Raquel MCP CCNA
> 
> - Just another geek.
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