MadWIFI and FC3 [WAS: FC3, Linuxant, stock kernel (2.6.9-1.667) and 4k stacks]

[Don Levey]

fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Don Levey wrote:
>
>> So... I got home, downloaded and compiled/installed madwifi
>> according to
>> the instructions in the README file they included.  Didn't seem that
>> there was much to it, really.  However, as far as I can tell it isn't
>> working, and I'm not getting an error.
>>
>> ...
>> It's there - but I get no IP address, and I can't connect out using
>> it.  Any ideas what I've missed?  I may go back to the Linuxant
>> loaders, just because they claim to have a solution that will work
>> for me, but I'd rather not...
>
> Well - when I tried madwifi with FC3 - I just copied my config from
> FC1. Basically - I have
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/[ifcfg-ath0,keys-ath0] files
>
> ---
> [balay at n-gage network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-ath0
> DEVICE=ath0
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> TYPE=Wireless
> USERCTL=no
> PEERDNS=yes
> IPV6INIT=no
> ESSID=***
>
> [balay at n-gage network-scripts]$ cat keys-ath0
> KEY=**********
>
> --
>
> I've primarily used it with 802.11b - and start the network with:
> ifup ath0
>

That *appears* to have done it (the machine is at home, and I'm at work
connected via ssh).  I added the ifcfg-ath0 file (as above, without the
ESSID and with gateway, hostname, and netmask). I now get an IP for ath0, my
dhcp server shows a connection for that interface.  When I get home I'll
confirm that it's running correctly.  Thanks for the help!

 -Don