Paul wrote:
Hi,
I've found how to get the inbuilt WLAN to work on my Toshiba A10 by
following the advice at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/2276/sort/2/cat/all/page/1
The problem is two fold here. The first is that I could do with having
the three modules autoloaded on boot each time I fire up the machine. I
know I can put them into mod* in /etc, but it looks like the device
needs 3 modules, so setting something like alias orinoco_cs sit0 can't
happen (unless all 3 modules can be put on the alias or something like
that).
Is it just a case of adding modprobe hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs and
then aliasing orinoco_cs to sit0?
That's wrong:-)
sit0 is an ip6inip4 tunnel.
I have a Toshiba Sattelite in which I use and Orinoco and/or Wavelan
card. It shows as eth1 (eth0 is the wired port) and I would expect yours
to be the same.
I'm running FC3 in which the network configuration's "devices" tab has
"edit" and edit has a "wireless" tab.
That should be all you need.
Secondly, I'm a bit bemused on how to use iwconfig. Can I just select
auto (the man page looks like I can) which will just pick everything
that is open up?
As root, on my LAN this would get you going.
ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid <whatever> key On|Off|s:key|asciikey \
rate auto [commit]
dhclient eth1
The first should load the config. I've not needed to load modules, muck
around with aliases on 2.6 kernels.
This incantation of iwconfig sets the essid (base station name),
determines whether to use wep, sets the link speed and commits the
changes. In my limited experience "commit" is not needed.
You might also need to add "mode managed." If so, before the essid: the
order matters, but is logical.
Before someone says this is the test list - yes, I know it is. The
machine the wlan is on is a laptop running rawhide so the answer may not
be the same for the testing kernel and setup as it is for FC < 5
TTFN
YMMV
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John
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