[NBLUG/talk] How do I get RH to recognize wireless card?

[Micxz Love (lovedialup.com)]

Mark Street wrote:
> It is looking for an address from the DHCP server.... it's trying man.
> 
> What is the GATEWAY machine's IP, where is the wireless card going to get its 
> IP from????  Getting closer....
> 
> On Friday 19 September 2003 21:58, Dave Sisley wrote:
> 
>>Sep 19 21:06:22 localhost cardmgr[3572]: executing: './network start eth0'
>>Sep 19 21:07:27 localhost dhcpcd[3899]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP
>>server response
> 
> 

So your Desktop is connected to the Access Point or wireless router via 
ethernet I assume. Go to your desktop and run ifconfig

On my box it's:

mars:/home/micxz # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:XX:xx:XX:xx:XX
           inet addr:10.10.10.1  Bcast:10.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

So you can see the (Server/Desktop) IP is 10.10.10.1.

Your wireless card gets it (Client/Laptop) IP from here:

# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
GATEWAY=10.10.10.1
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:30:bd:d0:96:5b
BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=no
IPADDR=10.10.10.2
ESSID={yourSSID}

THE IP's I USED ABOVE ARE JUST EXAMPLES. Hope this helps;

-- 
Micxz