Subject: Re: wireless
From: Christopher E. Brown (cbrown@woods.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 03:05:37 AKST
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> I'm a bit confused...
> When setting up wlan0, do I use 'ifconfig' or 'iwconfig' or, does it matter?
> Nothing seems to be working here....
>
>
> Adam
As always, configuring MAC/ARP/IP params for an ethernet interface (as
well as most other types) is properly done with 'ip' from the iproute2
package, or if you want to stay totally outdated 'ifconfig'.
'iwconfig' from the wireless_tools package is for configuring the
wireless params. Channel, power levels, AD-HOC/STATION, crypto type
and keys, etc...
Not to put too fine a point on it, RTFM. This is all covered, in the
wireless howtos, in the wireless_tools docs, etc...
You need *both*, iwconfig to configure the wireless params, and
ip/ifconfig to configure the rest. The pcmcia scripts, can load the
driver, and configure the IP side of things, but you still have to
configure the wireless params correctly.
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