Well, it works now. Re: WiFi with mandrake

[Duane Morin]

Can't put my finger on exactly what I did but I basically breadcrumbed my 
way through the various ifup scripts and tested lots of env variables to
make sure everything was being fed to iwconfig properly.  It appears that 
wireless.opts is never being executed, which is interesting.  I also added 
KEY= and CHANNEL= to my ifcfg-eth0 file.  

Also, that whole 169.x thing seems to be an IPv6 related thing.  The only 
reference I could find in any of my scripts was in network-functions-IPv6, 
where it assumes this address in some situations.  I also commented this 
out (since 192.168.x.x was next in line).

Duane

 On 30 Jun 2003, Derek Atkins 
wrote:

> Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yea, not surprising...
> 
> > 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.
> 
> M-x replace-string wlan0 eth0
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Are you actually using Ad-Hoc mode?  If you're in Managed Mode then you
> should not need to specify the FREQ.
> 
> > I've been googling around for some help but haven't found anything yet.
> > 
> > Duane
> 
> -derek
> 
>