Available Guides:::::
Installing a Wireless PC Card with Linux
site: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/wireless.html
This page covers in short how to set up a Wireless PC Card on SuSE Linux and Debian GNU/Linux distributions. (by Michael Weber)
Wireless HOWTO
site: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Wireless-HOWTO.html
This document explains how to setup Wireless in Linux, compatibility problems, something about geographic requirements and more.
Wardriving HOWTO
site: http://www.wardriving.com/doc/Wardriving-HOWTO.txt
This document functions as a starting guide to exploring wireless networks
Some short examples of installing 2 different wireless cards by Ryan Forrester www.d9x.net
One card is an Internal wireless network card and the other is a PCMCIA card (Mitac 8060b Laptop)
# Netgear WG511T Wireless PCMCIA install.
[root@ryan ~]# wget http://madwifi.otaku42.de/madwifi-cvs-current.tar.gz
# extract the file, go into the newly created dir.
[root@ryan madwifi]# make
[root@ryan madwifi]# make install
[root@ryan madwifi]# /sbin/modprobe ath_hal
[root@ryan madwifi]# /sbin/modprobe ath_pci
[root@ryan madwifi]# /sbin/modprobe wlan
# when u execute the next command u should see your device. (mine is ath0)
[root@ryan ~]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NETGEAR" Nickname:"ryan"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:A5:C9:B8
Bit Rate:24Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=22/94 Signal level=-73 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
# DIRECTORY: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
# Create this file with Network Program or manually.
[root@ryan network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-ath0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=ath0
HWADDR=00:0f:b5:a4:88:d8
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
# this next command makes it activate
[root@ryan ~]# /sbin/ifup ath0
# Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Install
[root@ryan ~]# ipw2100-fw-1.3.tgz
[root@ryan ~]# ipw2100-1.1.0.tgz
[root@ryan ~]# cd ipw2100-1.1.0
[root@ryan ipw2100-1.1.0]# make
[root@ryan ipw2100-1.1.0]# make install
[root@ryan ipw2100-1.1.0]# cd ../ipw2100-fw-1.3
# view /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent to determine the specific location of lib/firmware dir.
[root@ryan ipw2100-fw-1.3]# cp -rf ipw*fw /lib/firmware/
[root@ryan ipw2100-fw-1.3]# /sbin/modprobe ipw2100
[root@ryan ~]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Wireless_108Mbit/s" Nickname:"ryan"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:A5:C9:B8
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=20/94 Signal level=-75 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:2
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0kb/s Tx-Power:off
Retry:on RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:172 Missed beacon:0
# Like the first example above, you also need to create the file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
# Easiest way to do this is by using the Network Config Program. or u can manually create it with a text editor.
# this next command makes it activate
[root@ryan ~]# /sbin/ifup eth1
Other Related Sites:
linux.org/apps/
Suggest a link?:
mail us
Linux Hosting by www.d9x.net
| 
/home
d9x Linux Homepage
