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)
I'm only getting an 11 Mbps bitrate and I know this wireless connection can
do 54.
and perhaps a third issue:
The connection doesn't seem able to scan for available wireless networks,
either.
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
