On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 20:44 +0000, Alastair McKinley wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to set up a Belkin usb wireless adapter on FC6. Its the > rt73 chipset and as such I had to download and compile the driver for > it. > > Having done this, I am trying to get it to come up correctly on boot. > So I launched system-config-network and edited the relevant settings. > > However when i do, > > /sbin/ifdown rausb0 > /sbin/ifup rausb0 > > the WEP settings are not configured correctly. iwconfig shows that > encryption is off. > > So to get it to connect, I need to do this: > > sudo /sbin/iwconfig rausb0 key open > sudo /sbin/iwconfig rausb0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > It then works. ifcfg-rasub0 looks like this: > > # belkin rt73 usb > DEVICE=rausb0 > BOOTPROTO=none > IPADDR=192.168.1.101 > HWADDR=00:17:3F:71:62:72 > ONBOOT=yes > DHCP_HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain > DOMAIN= > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > TYPE=Wireless > USERCTL=no > IPV6INIT=no > PEERDNS=yes > ESSID=xxxxx > CHANNEL=11 > MODE=Managed > RATE=Auto > GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 > > The file keys-rausb0 is also there and it has the right key in it. Is > there something I am missing here? The startup scripts don't look for a "keys-name-of-device" file. You should specify the security mode with a line: SECURITYMODE=open And you'll have to imbed the keys in the ifcfg-rausb0 file as one of the following: KEY="xxxxxxxxxxxx" KEY1="xxxxxxxxxxx" KEY2="xxxxxxxxxxx" KEY3="xxxxxxxxxxx" KEY4="xxxxxxxxxxx" DEFAULTKEY="xxxxxxxxxx" This is all in the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless" script. Of course, if you wish to put the "KEY=" stuff in a separate file and do a ". /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-rausb0" inside the ifup-wireless script before the bits of the script that use it, by all means have at it. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
