New thread, broadcom 802-11 related

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 16:09, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>>I then added the ID alias with:
>>
>> ndiswrapper -d 14e4:4319 bcmwl5
>
> What file does this go into?

It is done via symlink:

bash-3.1$ pwd
/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5
bash-3.1$ ll
total 864K
8.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  682 Apr 17 09:32 14E4:4318.5.conf
4.0K lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   16 Apr 17 12:11 14E4:4319.5.conf -> 14E4:4318.5.conf
468K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 457K Apr 17 09:32 bcmwl564.sys
384K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 375K Apr 17 09:32 bcmwl5.inf
bash-3.1$ 

>>$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
>>
>># broadcom bcm4318 wireless
>>#
>># Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
>># for the documentation of these parameters.
>>DEVICE=wlan0
>>BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>>HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
>>ONBOOT=yes
>>TYPE=Wireless
>>DHCP_HOSTNAME=my_short_name
>>USERCTL=no
>>IPV6INIT=yes (mine was no)
>>IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes (didn't exist, does now)
>>PEERDNS=no  (this is what mine says too)
>>ESSID=myessid
>>CHANNEL=6
>>MODE=Managed
>>RATE=Auto
>>#
>I don't have any of this below in mine.

All that below there was added by hand.  Some of the above variables
were also added by hand.  I just went through the various ifup-*
scripts (eg. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-*) noting the various
env vars that might be useful to set.

> I use hosts files for that, its only a 7 machine network when all are 
> alive.  I point all dns queries to the firewall which fwds them to vz's 
> servers if its not in the hosts file there.

If VZ's named works for you then good enough, but they strike me as
pretty confused about dns in general.  Any interested hobbyist should
be able to do better.  (Just look at the lack of proper rDNS for a
good portion of their outgoing mailhosts for one glaring example.)

-wolfgang
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