USB Wireless G Adapter
I have a HWU54G Hawking Mini-USB Wireless adapter and I don't know how to get it working with my Slack 10.2 box. I just got it the other day for a desktop that is isolated from the router enough to prevent the possibility of a wire, and I tried messing around with ifconfig and iwconfig, but due to never having configured wireless, I had no luck. I also grabbed the drivers from Hawking's site and compiled/installed them (make, make install) and it apparently finished without errors, but the adapter still doesn't work. I have checked it and it works fine with Windows XP and it is detected as a USB 2.0 WLAN device as seen in the KDE Info Center. Any help would be appreciated!
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I think that the KDE info Center just reads the product information that it gets from the PCI ID.
You can check if the card is detected by running Code:
/sbin/ifconfig -a Code:
iwconfig Then, if your card driver is loaded, and armed with knowledge about your Wireless Access Point's (WAP's) ESSID and possibly WEP key, channel, etc.. you can write the information into /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and attach the PC to the network. The hard part will be when the card is not detected by Slackware because there is no driver present for it. In that case, you will have to start looking for a driver, based on the information that you read on the card or it's packaging material. You might get lucky with the ZyDas driver based on what I read in this topic: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...25#post1765125 Eric |
Thanks, that got it working great. After I got a working driver and messed around with my routing table and iwconfig/ifconfig, it works. One last thing, though, do you know how to make it automatically load during boot? (Like which rc. file I should put my commands in?) I have to type (as root) to get it working:
Code:
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.3 Rod |
Quote:
Code:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf Quote:
Code:
# Default gateway IP address: Code:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_restart Quote:
Cheers, Eric |
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