im trying to get ipw2100 installed, and in the INSTALL file, i get this... can someone translate this into what i need to do in slackware, because i have no idea...t hanks
Quote:
LOADING THE DRIVER
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You need to configure the device for your particular distribution. The steps
below will work on Red Hat, Fedora, and other similar distributions.
First, create a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called ifcfg-eth1
(or eth2, etc. as appropriate). Place the following within it:
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
% modprobe ipw2100
% ifup eth1
If you have DHCP configured on your network, and you have a wireless access
point nearby, you should be up and running.
You can check and see if your interface is up by running
% ifconfig eth1
To test the connection, you can ping a machine using the wireless interface:
% ping ipw2100.sf.net -I eth1
If you want to use the wireless interface for all traffic, set up the default
gateway to go through it. I usually perform the following:
# Disable eth0 completely
% ifdown eth0
# Configure the routing table to go through the wireless NIC
% route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth1
If you had brought down eth0 before you load the ipw2100 module, the system
should set up your routes for you.
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ok, i figured it out... what you do is add
modprobe ipw2100
to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
but now my questions has been changed... i dont always use wireless. in my house i can connect to an ethernet cable, but at school, i need to use wireless... now comes the next problem... my school uses a VPN client, and there is a version for windows.... so, how can i make the VPN client realize that there is a wireless card, but lets the VPN client connect, not iwp2100 connect?? and how can i make a script that will manually start the driver, NOT during startup?
just realized that editing that file doesnt start up ipw2100, there is something in the installation that starts it... how can i make it stop??
basically, what files can you edit in slackware to load modules at boot?
