wireless card ifup-wlan0 missing

geek1234 · 12-03-2007, 12:39 PM

Hi,

I did a fedora 8 install but am having trouble with wireless. The inbuilt intel 3945 card is detected and shows up as wlan0 and I can make it associate to an AP with iwconfig wlan0 essid. However, when i do /sbin/ifup wlan0, it says configuration for wlan0 not found and i actually see no ifup-wlan0 script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. How do I get this working? Network manager has the same problem because all it does is calls /sbin/ifup wlan0.

Lenard · 12-04-2007, 11:27 AM

So make one as root, example ifcfg-wlan0 file:

TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=<somethings one needs to add the wireless routers internal IP address here>
DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=yes
ONHOTPLUG=no
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=<you know this value>
CHANNEL=
MODE=
RATE=

Make sure you have a line entry in the /etc/modprobe.conf file for the wireless device, example:
alias wlan0 <driver name here>