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Topic: Dynex PCMCIA WiFi (Best Buy house brand), Wondering if this card works with DSL 4

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john.martzouco Offline

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,17:50

WEP up and running...

Now, what do I do to make this persistent? I have a hard-disk installation with multi-user.

Also, what do I need to do on the DSL (client side) to connect to the AP using WPA?

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,18:44

Another question... what console commands do I need to execute so that I can assign a static IP address through ath0? If I do this, will I still need to make the call to 'pump'?

I added the iwconfig commands to my /opt/bootlocal.sh, this is the best place for it, yes?

I remember seeing a post about how to change the machine's 'hostname'... so that comes pretty soon.

Should I want to put this machine on the same network workgroup as my desktop Windows machines? I'm guessing yes, so that I can easily file serve back and forth with Samba... but am I correct?

Much, much thanks to everyone who's helped me so far!
John

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,20:55

Most answers are up to you and how you will be using the machine.
Placing the commands in /opt/bootlocal.sh is fine if the machine will always be connecting to your home network.

BTW: Using the iwconfig gui in the control panel for 4.x makes a wireless icon and script in your home directory. I use this as I don't run wireless at home. I have several wireless icons for each net that I want to connect to when out and about.

Static IP is in the Wiki FAQ Place those command in /opt/.bootlocal.sh

Could also use netcardconf gui, but it has a bug until I post 4.1RC3.

For Samba please start a new thread, but look around many users are doing this with LinNeighborhood MyDSL extension.

For WPA, I have only tested using ndiswrapper. The trickest part is to get the correct settings in wpa_supplicant.conf

The commands using ndiswrapper that works for me are:

# iwconfig ath0 essid 'your-network-name'
# wpa_supplicant -Bdd -Dndiswrapper -i ath0 -c /home/dsl/wpa_supplicant.conf
# pump -i ath0

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,21:16

A million thanks Robert!

I'm going to take care of a few things on my setup and then post questions in appropriate places if I get stuck.

Today has been incredibly good for me, I've made great progress with my favorite distribution!