WiFi with mandrake
Duane Morin
dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com
Mon Jun 30 09:19:38 EDT 2003
Ok, I replaced my laptop's hard drive and while I was at it upgraded to
Mandrake 9.1. I'm trying to get wireless working but something seems to
have changed. On my old machine (Mandrake 8.x) I had an interface wlan0
configured, and kept eth0 for my Xircom ethernet card.
Mandrake 9 seems to detect my wireless Netgear card, but wants to call it
eth0. I can live with that. The problem is that it's not working and I
can't just copy my old scripts from the other box because they're all on
wlan0.
In particular, the setup wizard wants me to specify a bunch of wireless
parameters to be associated with the network device, such as NWID, FREQ
(but no CHANNEL, which I would have expected) and WEP KEY. In particular
I know my wep key but don't know what format it wants me to type it in.
I've been googling around for some help but haven't found anything yet.
Duane
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