[Cialug] [Cialug]wifi

[David Champion]

You should probably only need to set:

 > wireless_essid

This is your access point's ID

 > wireless_enc_key

This is your encryption key. If you're giving it a Hex id, you have to 
put something in front of the key... I don't recall off-hand what it is, 
but it's like "x:ABC123" where "ABC123" is your key.

I will verify that for you later if you can't find it elsewhere.

-dc

Dan Hockey wrote:
> David Champion wrote:
> 
>> The gui tool for this is "drakxconf", then choose "networking". I 
>> don't recall if 9.2 allows you to enter the WEP key in the gui tool. 
>> If not, I'll give you the proper structure for your config file when I 
>> get home tonite. It goes in your 
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth<x> files.
>>
> so far i've yet to find any wep settings in drakxconf until I went 
> through it again and found a little "expert" check box in the lower left 
> corner. now this bings up more options which are:
> wireless_mode - which brings up a drop down menu with these options: 
> ad-hoc,managed,master,repeater,secondary,and auto
> wireless_essid
> wireless_nwid
> wireless_freq
> wireless_rate
> wireless_enc_key
> wireless_rts
> wireless_frag
> wireless_iwconfig
> wireless_iwspy
> wireless_iwpriv
> some of the above also show up when I run iwconf, alot of which I have 
> no idea what they mean
> 
> 
> 
>> You can also do as Nathan suggests, and set it manually using iwconfig.
>>
>> Mandrake 10.1 has greatly improved it's wireless support, including a 
>> tool to let you switch between wireless networks. I did an update from 
>> 9.2 to 10.1 on my laptop, and it went very smoothly.
>>
> 10.1 community or official?
> 
>> -dc
>>
>> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
> go for it. i'm pulling my hair out tring to get wep working
> 
>>> 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