Add Wireless to Laptop
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Jul 17 00:47:15 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:22 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:29:37 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> I describe the results of the tests suggested by Timothy Murphy
> in a new thread entitled: "BCM WiFi Problem".
Here is an ifcfg-eth1 that works in my HP laptop using the BCM4318
with the ndiswrapper driver. I've never gotten the bcm43xx driver
to work reliably. Anyway, the "/etc/modprobe.conf" file has:
alias eth1 ndiswrapper
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 has:
# Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g
# Wireless LAN Controller
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ESSID=myessid
HWADDR=00:14:a5:61:74:18
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
RATE=Auto
MODE=Managed
CHANNEL=
As for the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth1 file, it contains:
KEY='0xYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY open'
The "YYYY" stuff represents 26 hex characters and we use the "open"
access mode. At home I have similar stuff set up, but the access mode
is "restricted" and I use an ASCII string as the key instead of hex,
e.g.:
KEY='s:wxyzwxyzwxyz restricted'
Use as you see fit. Just thought an example might help.
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