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Wiggy 04-13-2004 12:50 AM
Slackware peeps: Quick wireless question
 
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... :scratch:

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 :cry:

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? :confused:


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