Slackware peeps: Quick wireless question

Wiggy · 04-13-2004, 12:50 AM

Hi, yeah I got my MS 520 wirless notebook adapter to work (binded it to orinoco) and it's working fine. But where do you enter your AP info? wep, essid, etc...

I've tried afew things:

Enabled DHCP on eth0 via /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

Entered this in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts

Code:

*,*,*,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX)
INFO="Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520"
ESSID="XXXXXX"
CHANNEL="X"
KEY="XXXXXXXXXXXXX"

I've also tried to add this info by iwconfig but when I reboot the information I've added is not there.

What am I doing wrong

2Gnu · 04-13-2004, 01:08 AM

iwconfig entries are not saved after boot.

/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts is where I enter my ESSID, WEP key and mode.
Syntax for the WEP key is:
KEY="abcd-1234-ffff-9999-0987-fedc-00"

Wiggy · 04-13-2004, 01:15 AM

Yeah sorry its entered in hex XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX with a mix of numbers and letters. It's not all letters for the first part and only numbers for the second part etc.., or is that just a genral example you've given?

2Gnu · 04-13-2004, 11:03 AM

Yes, that was just an example so that you could see the format.

Wiggy · 04-14-2004, 04:54 AM

Okay it works now, I put the info between

------------------START SECTION TO REMOVE--------------------------

-------------------END SECTION TO REMOVE--------------------------

Is this the reason it works now?