-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Tate Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:34 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: wireless wpc54g >I am attempting to configure my wireless wpc54g card and router using Fedora. I'm >searching google and other locations for drivers/instructions. (1) Get ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (2)make install ndiswrapper -i WPC54G/lsbcmnds.inf (3) Next up is creating an interface configuration file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0: MODE=Managed ESSID=wifi.mfd-consult.dk KEY=<26 hex characters for the 128 bit WEP key specific to my AP> DEVICE=wlan0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp USERCTL=no PEERDNS=no TYPE=Wireless (4) Then came the tricky part: The WPC54G is a PCMCIA card, but on my Redhat Linux 9 installation, the networking is set to start up before the PCMCIA interface is initialized. To overcome this problem, I changed the chkconfig parameters for three of the startup scripts (the NFS script failed to work properly if not started after the network): pcmcia: 21 96 network: 22 90 nfslock: 23 86 (5) After that, I issued the following commands to reset the sequence: chkconfig pcmcia reset chkconfig network reset chkconfig nfslock reset (6) The only thing missing was to make sure the PCMCIA and NdisWrapper drivers were loaded on startup, by simulating a card insert event - if necessary - and forcing the drivers to load: rmmod ndiswrapper 2>/dev/null cardctl status | grep "no card" > /dev/null && cardctl insert modprobe ndiswrapper That's it, running /etc/init.d/network restart should bring up the wireless interface, after which I could turn off the ethernet connection by setting ONBOOT=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. I found this on an archive a while back... Hope this may help you. Regards, John
