On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Bart Decrem wrote:
> Hi everyone,
I've re-wrapped your lines. Please set your mailer to wrap at 72 or so.
> I'm trying to get my Orinoco wireless card to work with Red Hat 7.3 on
> my Dell Inspiron 5000e but have been having trouble. So today I
> figured I'd try playing by the rules and use the Red Hat Network
> Configuration tool.
>
> I've got version 1.0.1 of redhat-config-network.rpm (the one that came
> with 7.3). When I click on the Add button, I see entries for
> Ethernet, ISDN, modem, xDSL, Token Ring, Cipe - but not for Wireless.
> The Red Hat online documentation says that there should be an entry
> for Wireless devices (I guess as of 7.2), but interestingly my Help
> file for redhat-config-network doesn't list Wireless devices - I guess
> though that that is just a documentation oversight.
>
> To make sure I didn't screw up my settings when I was experimenting
> earlier, I threw away my /etc/pcmcia folder and reinstalled the
> Kernel-pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools RPMs. When I start my computer,
> during the boot process it shows a line or two about Yenta and then
> gives PCMCIA the green light.
>
> If I do lsmod, the proper driver (orino_cs) shows up. When I insert
> my Orinoco card, I get two happy beeps. dmesg shows the card as
> properly identified.
>
> So why can I not use redhat-config-network to configure my wireless
> modem?
It's a bug, I believe (one of several still left in the redhat network
manager when it comes to wireless and multiple interfaces). Edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx (where x is the number of the
wireless interface) and insert the line
TYPE="Wireless"
Then rerun redhat-config-network and it should show you the wireless
options.
> Is there another user-friendly way to configure my wireless card?
> Until today, I tried installing Lucent's driver (wavelan2_cs) but I
> get confused trying to figure out how exactly I'm supposed to edit the
> /etc/pcmcia/config.opts files (since there seems to be some
> configuration conflict between how pcmcia-cs.tar.gz does things and
> the way Red Hat set things up) - so I'm trying to simplify my life by
> going with the Orinoco_cs driver and the standard Red Hat GUI tools...
>
> I'm not an engineer, so I'd appreciate it if you could help me using
> newbie-lingo :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart
>
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