[Cialug] [Cialug]wifi

[Nathan C. Smith]

This would be a good topic for a future meeting.  A lot of people are
frustrated with Linux on a laptop when their wireless card does not
immediately work.  It would be good to find the drivers for the device you
want to use, manually load and use the drivers and then set up the config
files to automatically load the drivers.

If you have iwconfig (man iwconfig) you can make wireless settings changes
with that from the command line - ssid, etc.  Then use ifconfig eth# up and
dhclient eth# to get an IP address.  Some versions of ifconfig seem to offer
better wireless card controls than others.  There are some linux-specific
tools for the Orinoco cards as well, but I've never used them.

Maybe there are better config tools in your distro.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Hockey [mailto:icepuck1701@mchsi.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 6:22 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] [Cialug]wifi



how do i setup wep on mdk9.2 now that i have the right orinoco gold 
card? what is there for gui based tools for seting up wep. i've looked 
on google and it comes up with wep cracks insted.
-dh
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