[TriLUG] Red Hat 7.2 and Wireless Lan

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:58:31PM -0500, Justin Johnson spoke thusly:
> I installed Red Hat 7.2, and then updated the kernel (and everything else)
> using the Update Agent and Red Hat Network.
> I am now on the 2.4.9-13 kernel, and I installed the
> kernel-wlan-ng-0.1.10-0rh72_k249.i386.rpm, which seemingly installed
> ok (no errors). I have edited /etc/module.conf to alias wlan0 to prism2_plx,
> and the other files should be ok as I copied them
> from my Dell laptop that is working with wireless (albeit on RH7.1)
> 
> Anyone had any experience setting this mess up?

(a) Did you modify /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts to match the ESSID & etc for your
card?
(b) are you *ABSOLUTELY* sure that you need the wlan drivers for your
card? 
(c) does /etc/pcmcia/config & /etc/pcmcia/config.opts know about this
card?
(d) do you have the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wvlan0 that
ocntains your IP settings (DHCP, etc)?

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