Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 16:09, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>I then added the ID alias with: >> >> ndiswrapper -d 14e4:4319 bcmwl5 > > What file does this go into? It is done via symlink: bash-3.1$ pwd /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5 bash-3.1$ ll total 864K 8.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 682 Apr 17 09:32 14E4:4318.5.conf 4.0K lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 17 12:11 14E4:4319.5.conf -> 14E4:4318.5.conf 468K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 457K Apr 17 09:32 bcmwl564.sys 384K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 375K Apr 17 09:32 bcmwl5.inf bash-3.1$ >>$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 >> >># broadcom bcm4318 wireless >># >># Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt >># for the documentation of these parameters. >>DEVICE=wlan0 >>BOOTPROTO=dhcp >>HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 >>ONBOOT=yes >>TYPE=Wireless >>DHCP_HOSTNAME=my_short_name >>USERCTL=no >>IPV6INIT=yes (mine was no) >>IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes (didn't exist, does now) >>PEERDNS=no (this is what mine says too) >>ESSID=myessid >>CHANNEL=6 >>MODE=Managed >>RATE=Auto >># >I don't have any of this below in mine. All that below there was added by hand. Some of the above variables were also added by hand. I just went through the various ifup-* scripts (eg. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-*) noting the various env vars that might be useful to set. > I use hosts files for that, its only a 7 machine network when all are > alive. I point all dns queries to the firewall which fwds them to vz's > servers if its not in the hosts file there. If VZ's named works for you then good enough, but they strike me as pretty confused about dns in general. Any interested hobbyist should be able to do better. (Just look at the lack of proper rDNS for a good portion of their outgoing mailhosts for one glaring example.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
