On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:29 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman > > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 16:26 > > To: For users of Fedora > > Subject: RE: F 7 and ipw2200BG Problems > ... > > What's in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1? > > ifcfg-eth1: ===> > TYPE=Wireless > DEVICE=eth1 > HWADDR=00:0e:35:69:88:7f > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > NETMASK= > DHCP_HOSTNAME=tomtomjr > IPADDR= > DOMAIN= > ONBOOT=no > USERCTL=no If you want users to be able to control the interface, this should be USERCTL=yes Then you can issue ifup/ifdown from the command line or a network monitor applet without becoming root. > IPV6INIT=no > PEERDNS=yes > ESSID= You need to have the ESSID (the name you gave in your wireless router setup) specified. > CHANNEL=1 > MODE=Managed > RATE='0 kb/s' This looks strange. Mine says RATE=Auto > <=== > Also, if your router uses WEP encryption, you should have a file in the same directory called keys-eth1 with the WEP key in plain text form. You can set all these things in the Wireless Settings tab for the eth1 device in system-config-network. > -Tom > > P.S. MS Outlook has failed me yet again. How so? We're moving to exchange, and I've concluded that there's no such thing as an unmixed blessing... -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
