[NBLUG/talk] How do I get RH to recognize wireless card?

[Christopher Wagner]

Well, once there are drivers installed, one would do an 'iwconfig wlan0 ...'

For example:
iwconfig wlan0 essid=myessid
would set the essid to 'myessid'

I've not worked with an amtel card before.  My chipset is Prism2 and I was
installing on Debian. :)  I remember I compiled new modules for it.

- Christopher Wagner
chrisw at pacaids.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
Dave Sisley
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:18 AM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] How do I get RH to recognize wireless card?


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:55:15AM -0700, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> Here's a link which may help with some information.
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/hardware.html#HWWIRELESS
> 
> And this looks a little more specific to what you've got:
> http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/howto/howto-8.html
> 
> I don't see any references to it, but there's an RPM package
> 'wireless-tools' (I think) that gives you tools like iwconfig and
whatnot..
> You can also compile this from source.
> 
> - Christopher Wagner
> chrisw at pacaids.com


Thank you, Christopher.  I took a quick scan of the docs you list (well, the
atmel ones on sourcforge), and they might help.  I notice that they
talk about USB devices; mine are pcmcia (laptop) and pci (desktop).
There might be some hints here nonetheless.

I think I have wirelss-tools installed (I can bring up iwconfig,
anyway, but I don't know what to do with it!).

-dave.
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