Wireless - Works Fine, but is this a long way round ?
Posted: Sun 02 Oct 2005, 13:55
Got my wireless working, and connected to the internet, but not sure if what I have done should be taken care of by some of the wizards or not??
I made sure Perl was present, copied over the drivers for my card, and them used ndiswrapper. That all fine.
I then used iwconfig to set the SID and the channel
Used ifconfig to bring wlan0 up and to assign it a static address
used route add default gw x.x.x.x wlan0 to add the gateway
then finally edited /etc/resolv.conf to include a nameserver.
I have the feeling that some, if not all, of the above should have been done
by the setup graphical wizard, but it wasn't obvious.
Am I missing something ???
I made sure Perl was present, copied over the drivers for my card, and them used ndiswrapper. That all fine.
I then used iwconfig to set the SID and the channel
Used ifconfig to bring wlan0 up and to assign it a static address
used route add default gw x.x.x.x wlan0 to add the gateway
then finally edited /etc/resolv.conf to include a nameserver.
I have the feeling that some, if not all, of the above should have been done
by the setup graphical wizard, but it wasn't obvious.
Am I missing something ???