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paddyjoy

03-26-2006 08:39 PM

Wireless configuration editor?

I was just wondering what people use for configuring their wireless cards. At the moment I use a script like this in my /etc/rc5.d/ directory but it would be nice if non-root users could easily change the wireless setting using some form of gui.

Any recomendations?

Paddy

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#

# Wireless setup

#

# Author:      P Joy

# description:  Set up wireless network card

#



modprobe ath_pci

modprobe wlan_scan_sta



ifconfig ath0 up



iwconfig ath0 key "s:paddyjoy"

ifconfig ath0 192.168.17.126 netmask 255.255.255.0

route add default gw 192.168.17.1

Brian1

03-27-2006 04:45 PM

I am basing my questions on the tag of FC4 you list to the side.
Is this not listed in the Network Configuration Tool in your Start Menu?

I would put the modprobe lines in /etc/rc.local. Same for the rest. But on reboot they will return to these settings. Since running atheoes madwifi drivers does the file /etc/sysconfig/netwoking-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 exist? This is where default madwifi location for FC4 would go.

Example: of my ifcfg-ath0

Code:

# NAME='Linksys WPC55AG'

# STARTMODE='auto'

ONBOOT=no

DEVICE=ath0

# ESSID=default

MODE=Managed

# BOOTPROTO=dhcp

BOOTPROTO=none

WIRELESS=yes

IPADDR=192.168.1.158

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

# KEY=##########    # 64bit - 10 variables long

KEY=##########################    #128bit - 26 variables long

RATE=auto

# IWPRIV="authmode 1"

TYPE=Unknown

Brian1

paddyjoy

03-27-2006 08:01 PM

I forgot to update my profile I'm on FC5 now :-)

No the file /etc/sysconfig/netwoking-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 doesn't exist and the ath0 device doesn't show up in the network manager. Should I create this file manually myself or is there a better way?

Thanks,
Paddy

fortezza

06-10-2006 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paddyjoy

For it to work, you need to get the module loaded and alias it to ath0. After that, you can set up the networking script ( ifcfg-ath0 ) to configure the card.

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