WiFi with mandrake

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:19:38AM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> Mandrake 9 seems to detect my wireless Netgear card, but wants to call it 
> eth0.  I can live with that.  The problem is that it's not working and I 
> can't just copy my old scripts from the other box because they're all on 
> wlan0.

You could edit them - s/wlan0/eth0/g

> In particular, the setup wizard wants me to specify a bunch of wireless 
> parameters to be associated with the network device, such as NWID, FREQ 
> (but no CHANNEL, which I would have expected) and WEP KEY.  In particular 
> I know my wep key but don't know what format it wants me to type it in.

Try the same format from your old config files. Most other entries can
safely be left blank.

-dsr-

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