Linksys wireless router on Red Hat 9

SidA · 04-03-2004, 05:43 PM

I have just installed red hat 9 on a dell inspiron 8600. I have a linksys Wireless G router. Does anyone know how I can setup wireless internet for Red Hat 9.0. Do I need only the drivers for centrino (available from linuxant) or I will also need drivers for the router. I was lookin for the drivers on the linksys website but seems like they don't really have them for Linux.
Thx, Sid.

AutOPSY · 04-03-2004, 06:29 PM

If your ISP is a DHCP setup, put your router configuration to obtain an IP automattically,

then in redhat, type setup at the terminal or in a shell, go to network, and select DHCP/BootP

then reboot the computer.

when the computer comes back up, get to another term/shell and type ifconfig

it should list eth0 device with an
inet addr (your IP given by router)

and so as long as your ISP uses DHCP setup everything for DHCP anfd you will be on the net in 30 minutes.

SidA · 04-03-2004, 08:11 PM

I did setup; reboot; ifconfig. The network is still not working. Leave alone, wireless, not even the cable modem ethernet connection works. One thing I noticed is that my ethernet card, Broadcom 440x 10*100 is not listed in the list of ethernet cards when I do a redhat-network-config.
But I don't see why this should affect the wireless network.

david_ross · 04-04-2004, 09:16 AM

Moved to Wireless