On 12/1/05, Patrick <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 11:50 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > [snip] > > ok, got it now working. it is really a pig, like already said. ifconfig > > -a told me later, that there exist a device called wlan0 - > > system-config-network didn't. > > > > so, as a first step, i called it manually with ifconfig wlan0 inet > > [ipadress] netmask [netmask] up -> this worked fine. > > > > afterwards, it was also known in system-config-network, so i could do > > the rest there. > > I think I read somewhere that FC4's network scripts have a bit of > trouble handling wlan0. However, you can tell ndiswrapper to use a > different device name. So it is possible to let ndiswrapper call the new > device eth1 instead of wlan0. To make this happen stick this line > in /etc/modprobe.conf: > > options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1 No, no problem with the name wlan0 here. I can't remember how I got system-config-network to notice it -- possibly I manually modprobed ndiswrapper once. MEF -- __ Mary Ellen Foster __ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ __ "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." (Robert Firth) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list