[NCLUG] wlan

shane at bogomip.com shane at bogomip.com
Fri Sep 12 11:27:56 MDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:39:34AM -0600, Daniel Miles wrote:
> If there's anybody out there who has wireless (802.11b) on a linux
> laptop, I could use some advice because I don't even know where to
> start.
> 
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 5100 and a linksys WPC11 pcmcia 802.11b card.

Should be easy as pie

> I'm pretty sure I've got the pcmcia stuff configured correctly, it
> reports unknown card in slot (lspci).

lspci will not show pcmcia devices, however cardctl will.

Give me the output of lspci and I will tell you what the unknown device is.. most likely your internal modem.

> I'm also pretty sure I can get the card working because I found a pretty
> good howto.
 
> However, setting my my networking for wireless is totally beyond me... I
> know I have to add something in /etc/network/interfaces and that such an
> item has something to do with the word wlan0 but that's it, that's all I
> know.

Using debian.. I can point you to a good source for configuring this

Shane

> 
> Can anybody help out?
> 
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