Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2005, 13:58 +0000 schrieb Mary Ellen Foster:
> On 12/1/05, Patrick <fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 11:50 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > ok, got it now working. it is really a pig, like already said. ifconfig
> > > -a told me later, that there exist a device called wlan0 -
> > > system-config-network didn't.
> > >
> > > so, as a first step, i called it manually with ifconfig wlan0 inet
> > > [ipadress] netmask [netmask] up -> this worked fine.
> > >
> > > afterwards, it was also known in system-config-network, so i could do
> > > the rest there.
> >
> > I think I read somewhere that FC4's network scripts have a bit of
> > trouble handling wlan0. However, you can tell ndiswrapper to use a
> > different device name. So it is possible to let ndiswrapper call the new
> > device eth1 instead of wlan0. To make this happen stick this line
> > in /etc/modprobe.conf:
> >
> > options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1
> 
> No, no problem with the name wlan0 here. I can't remember how I got
> system-config-network to notice it -- possibly I manually modprobed
> ndiswrapper once.
> 
> MEF
> 
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> __ Mary Ellen Foster __ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ __
> "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
> lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination
> of their C programs." (Robert Firth)
> 
i manually modprobed several times - perhaps the ndiswrapper -m was not
a good choice....but now, it is working flawlessy

Rog