I don't have a PCI card, just a Prism II based pcmcia card, but I think the eth0 orinoco_pci statement in your /etc/modules.conf will auto-load the orinoco (and hermes, etc) driver Here is what I did to make it work 1. use redhat network config Now some explanation. Add a hardware device and pick the wireless option and then pick the driver that applies to your card. Then configure it including adding WEP keys as appropriate Now some more details. I checked into what this was doing since my card wasn't working (I watched /var/log/messages and found that I had to add my card's manfid to /etc/pcmcia/config) and I think I have the guts worked out. 1. Edit /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to have it start on boot (this of course only applies if you are using a pcmcia card) 2. add a statement to /etc/modules.conf to set your card to a specific ethx (you can watch /var/log/messages while doing a /sbin/service pcmcia restart to see what card is being inserted and what driver is being used). In my case I wanted my builtin wired nic to be eth0 and my wifi to be eth1 so I have entries for both. This is important since default redhat sticks the wifi settings in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx files and seems to totally ignore the wireless.opts and related files that the rest of the wifi community uses. 3. as mentioned above, all your settings for the card (including WEP keys) go in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx file that references your wifi card. They seem to have the same settings as would normally go in the wireless.opts file Craig White (craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >I sent this through yesterday but I didn't get more than 2 messages from >yesterday so forgive me for repeating this post... > >I shouldn't complain since I seem to have things working...It's a >Linksys WPC11 > >00:0a.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan >chipset (rev 01) > Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 > Memory at e9001000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 > >but to make it work - I have done the following: >1 - edit /etc/modules.conf by adding... > alias eth0 orinoco > alias eth0 orinoco_pci > >2 - edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and added > iwconfig eth0 essid "network_name" key "XXXX-XXXX-XX" & > (using 64 bit key) > >and it works - on my laptop, I only needed to put the stuff from part 2 >into /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and it worked but for the pci card, it >doesn't work. > >Does anyone want to enlighten me of a better way? > >Thanks >Craig > > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
