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chrroessner
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 Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject: Wireless-LAN pcmcia card (NetGear WG511GR) with kernel 2.6.0 |
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Hi,
I am using the prism54 kernel module to get my wireless lan card working. After I have written a short wlan.sh script, which configures my card, I would like to know, if there is a way to get it work automatically, when the card is plugged or unplugged.
I do not use pcmcia-cs.
I found out something is looking for /etc/init.d/net.eth1. hotplug? I tried to customize net.eth1, but with no success.
My question:
My script does ifconfig eth1 up and the iwconfig-stuff, followed by dhcpcd eth1. What do I have to put in /etc/conf.d/net, to get the stuff working with the normal rc-scripts? Do I have to add the iwconfig calls to net.eth1?
What is your experience with wireless lan based on kernel-support?
My wlan.sh:
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#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
start)
ifconfig eth1 up
sleep 2
iwconfig eth1 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
iwconfig eth1 essid My_Essid
iwconfig eth1 freq 2.462G
iwconfig eth1 channel 11
iwconfig eth1 enc XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
dhcpcd eth1
;;
stop)
dhcpcd -z eth1 && ifconfig eth1 down
;;
*)
echo "Usage $0: {start|stop}"
;;
esac
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Hopefully there is an automatic variant.
Regards
Christian |
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Voltago
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Why don't you just use pcmica-cs? It works with 2.6. In case you had a compiling problem, do the following:
| Code: | cd /usr/src
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.6.0-gentoo-linux
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge pcmcia-cs |
Symlinking a 2.6er kernel source should prevent pcmcia-cs to try to install its own drivers, it will install tools only. |
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sa
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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andy_ypsilon: the prism54 cards are cardbus, so they can't use pcmcia-cs.
(they look like pci cards to the system).
chrroessner: I have a prism54 card, as eth0. the hotplug system automaticly runs "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start" when the card is inserted, (I dont run /etc/init.d/hotplug) .does this not happen to you with eth1? mabey you need to add a to /etc/modules.d/aliases?
but anyway, all I do is add | Code: | /usr/sbin/iwconfig eth0 enc s:default_key_1
/usr/sbin/iwconfig eth0 essid my_essid
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to around line 45 in /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and it works perfectly, the rest of that iwconfig you are using is most likely uneccesary. (it is autodetected)
hth,
sa |
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chrroessner
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, I will try it, but one question is left: What do you put into /etc/conf.d/net?
Is it true, the eth-device needs a ifconfig up call before using iwconfig? |
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