Re: Compaq WIFI card not recognized by FC4

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On 7/6/05, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Also, it's good practice to trim irrelevant info from replies :).

> Thanks for all of you help, I would have not been able to get this far without it.

No problem, glad to help.

> I did have one last question maybe you could help me with:
> 
> 1. Because I am using ndiswrapper does this mean that I have to do this through the command line
> each time I want to authenticate to a network.
> 
> Note: I ask this because when I look at the network cards through the gui this card doesn't show up,
> just my internal network card that was discovered natively.

Really?  Works for me.  Go to Desktop->System Settings->Network, then
click New select Wireless connection then click Forward, and there it
is, ndiswrapper (wlan0).  I don't use wireless enough to really set it
up this way yet.  I just put all the necessary commands in a little
script for when I want to use it.

> 2. If I do use authenticate to another essid with another encryption key, will the one that I
> entered for my network be wiped out? or will it be retained?

I think you will need to re-set your WEP key when you change back. 
I'm not sure if there is a way to store multiple, at least not with
iwconfig alone.  What I do is have the key in a file and run:

iwconfig wlan0 key `cat key.txt`

Those are "back-ticks" around the cat key.txt (un-shifted tilda ~). 
Sure beats having to type it in every time.  And definitely beats
Windows XP where you have to enter it *twice* in the blind
(thankfully, you only have to do that once) :).  The Network
configuration app has a thing called Profiles that you might be able
to setup to switch between networks.  What you probably want is
provided by something called NetworkManager.  It's a very new app,
though, but I think it is a lot more stable than it was.  I haven't
tried doing anything with it, but I think it is supposed to make
networking between wired and multiple wireless networks more like in
Windows where you can change things easily.  Linux is still growing
into the laptop market where these kinds of features are needed.  One
day I'll get it all working.  For now, commands and scripts are good
enough for me.

Jonathan


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