Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Mon Dec 31 11:02:49 UTC 2012


On 12/29/2012 05:27 PM, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 17 / KDE
> 
> How do I enable Wireless network,
> 
> NetworkManager is disabled.
> 
> Wired Network is functioning normal.
> 
> I'm sure that all I have to do is enable the Wireless Network.
> 
> Module rt2800pci is loading and I can read MAC# of wireless card
> 
> ifcfg-wlan below
> 
> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> # for the documentation of these parameters.
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> TYPE=Wireless
> HWADDR=00:15:af:e5:0b:49
> GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> ONBOOT=yes
> USERCTL=yes
> PEERDNS=no
> IPV6INIT=no
> ESSID=dd-wrt
> MODE=Managed
> RATE=auto
> NM_CONTROLLED=no
> DNS2=8.8.0.0
> DNS1=8.8.8.8
> CHANNEL=

Try to get it working manually, by using iwconfig commands
to configure the interface at the point where you see the
"Access Point" mac address shown in the iwconfig output, that
means the radio layer is ok and you're just missing IP, DNS and routes.

After succeeding manually, try to understand what the network scripts
do differently.

You can place a few "set -x" inside the scripts to see what
they are doing.

The problem could be related to the fact that some settings (channel,
SSID, ...) are only changeable when the interface is down (or up) and that
appears to be not consistent between drivers. (ifconfig wlan0 up/down)

(I personally lost my patience with NetworkManager, which is a mess, AND with
network scripts, which are obviously abandoned; so I just have my own
scripts to handle the connections).

-- 
   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it


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