[NBLUG/talk] SSID and wlan-ng drivers?

augie schwer at sonic.net
Sat Mar 1 11:22:01 PST 2003


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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:25:03PM -0800, Mark Street wrote:
> I set my SSID in /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts, RH 8.0.  I don't use iwconfig to 
> bring my wlan up.  I use ifup.

don't have one. but from what i see online it is the same as
/etc/wlan/wlancfg-SSID on my machine.
 
> When my pcmcia services come up it sets the default SSID.  If you look in the 
> file /var/lib/pcmcia/scheme

the file is empty when i start pcmcia services.
 
> Verify that the correct configuration line was placed in the 
> /etc/modules.conf file.  This should have been done automatically when the
> RPM was installed, but check it to make sure!  For example, for PCMCIA 
> cards, the line should be 'alias wlan0 prism2_cs'.

yep i got that, although it may be notable that i've been doing this
all from source, and not with packages, so my setup is probably
different. in any case it seems like it really shouldn't be this hard
to set the darn SSID...

augie
 

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