wireless network 1197
Dale Well Dale, it seems some folks got up on the wrong foot, not a very pleasant welcome. In their defense: there are so many postings...
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:23:33 -0700, Dale
You mean RH9 which is obsolete and came out before there were any wireless cards.
The first thing you need to do is to upgrade to Fedora Core 5 which is the latest free Redhat distro. If you are lucky your laptop has a Linux compatible wireless card, if it does you'll be able to configure it just like any other network card. However there is a better than even chance that your card doesn't have a native Linux driver. If that's the case then you'll have to install Ndiswrapper which will allow you to use the XP driver with Linux. Ndiswrapper will require some hand work to get working, if you Google Ndiswrapper and FC5 you'll find a bunch of web pages which will tell you what to do. Even after Ndiswrapper has been installed the FC5 GUIs won't recognize the card, however that's not a big problem. All you have to do is create the script by hand. To help you here is mine, you'll have to change the ESSID, HWADDR, IP address and the key in the keys-wlan0 file,
etc-sysconfig-network-scripts-ifcfg-wlan0
DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 HWADDR=00:90:4B:5F:85:07 IPADDR=192.168.1.4 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 ESSID=MYNETWORK TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=wlan0 ONBOOT=no DOMAIN= DHCPHOSTNAME= USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 RATE=Auto CHANNEL=11 MODE=Auto
etc-sysconfig-network-scripts-keys-wlan0 KEY=loveloveloveloveloveloveloveloveX
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