Wireless PCMCIA cards

[gaf at heli-vets.net (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks. I'll check my SuSE distro to see if it is on the distro first. 
On 21 Feb 2002 at 15:50, Patrick McManus wrote:

> its a binary - part of the wireless extensions.. rh for laptops does
> install it though.
> 
> "The Wireless Extension is a generic API allowing a driver to expose
> to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common
> Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can
> support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type
> (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension). Another advantage
> is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the
> driver (or Linux)."
> 
> you can get them here..
> 
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
> 
> -P
> 
> 
> [Jerry Feldman: Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:28:25PM -0500]
> > Thank you, bit that is not installed on my system. Is that a Red Hat 
> > script?
> > 
> > On 21 Feb 2002 at 15:10, Patrick McManus wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > ifconfig does not find eth0 like it does for my wired card. Here at Compaq, I do need to set 
> > > > encryption keys, but I have not found out where to put them yet, 
> > > > 
> > > > (This is RTFM, and I simply have not played with it or read the relevant Howtos yet).  
> > > 
> > > iwconfig
> > > 
> > 
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