Re: Wireless

> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:59:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Kevin <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> 	Its pretty straight forward.
> 
> 	Find out what nic you have, find it in LINT or GENERIC, make sure
> that line is in your boxes kernel config file (i.e. mine is device wi ).
> 
> 	Recompile and install the kernel.
> 
> 	Make sure that something like this is in the rc.conf file.
> 
> pccard_enable="YES"
> pccard_ifconfig="inet 192.168.0.42  netmask 255.255.255.255"
> pccard_mem="DEFAULT"
> pccardd_flags=" -i 10"
> 
> 	If you have a nic in this box that is on a physical lan connection
> and is on the same subnet the netmask for one of them has to be
> 255.255.255.255 and the other can be 255.255.255.0.
> 
> 	Reboot.
> 
> 	Season to taste.
> 
> 	And thats pretty much it.
> 

A couple more things: If you use DHCP, pccard_ifconfig="DHCP" instead
of the address and mask. The 'pccardd_flags=" -i 10"' should probably
not be needed (or wanted) on most systems. YMMV. I do recommend
'pccardd_flags="-z".

Also, read up on the wi extensions to ifconfig and wicontrol for
setting up the network name (usually just let it find the AP by
leaving it blank) and encryption (WEP). ('man wi' and 'man wicontrol')

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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