On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Robert L. Cochran wrote:
How do I get Fedora Core 5 to automatically detect and set up my wireless
connection? I can see that it detects the Broadcom 43xx (I think it's a 4316)
integrated wireless controller, but the runlevel 5 scripts don't actually
detect and configure the connection with the essid and encryption key, then
do a dhcp call to get an IP address, the host name, and the DNS information.
If I do this manually in a terminal as root:
iwconfig eth1 essid hummr
iwconfig eth1 key open xxxx...
dhclient eth1
The wireless connection comes up and Firefox can visit websites etc. But I
have 2 problems:
The hostname isn't changed from localhost.localdomain to the one I want for
this machine (it should be supplied by my dhcp server)
In system-config-network, you can check Activate at boot, Obtain IP
settings, and Obtain DNS information for the interface. Under the DNS
tab, don't set the Hostname field. Reboot after making these settings, as
the hostname only takes effect at boot.
I *think* that will do it. I know there is some combination of options
settable there that will do it.
I'm only getting an 11 Mbps bitrate and I know this wireless connection can
do 54.
802.11g? Does the WAP support it? Is there an 802.11b device associated
with the same WAP? That will force g connections to run at 11Mpbs.
and perhaps a third issue:
The connection doesn't seem able to scan for available wireless networks,
either.
How are you testing this? iwlist ethX scan will only scan if run as
root.
Thanks for any advice that can be supplied. I did look for this information
on fedorafaq.org and fedora.redhat.com. I also Googled.
Bob Cochran
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
