On 12/1/05, Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 11:50 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote: [snip]
ok, got it now working. it is really a pig, like already said. ifconfig -a told me later, that there exist a device called wlan0 - system-config-network didn't.
so, as a first step, i called it manually with ifconfig wlan0 inet [ipadress] netmask [netmask] up -> this worked fine.
afterwards, it was also known in system-config-network, so i could do the rest there.
I think I read somewhere that FC4's network scripts have a bit of trouble handling wlan0. However, you can tell ndiswrapper to use a different device name. So it is possible to let ndiswrapper call the new device eth1 instead of wlan0. To make this happen stick this line in /etc/modprobe.conf:
options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1
No, no problem with the name wlan0 here. I can't remember how I got system-config-network to notice it -- possibly I manually modprobed ndiswrapper once.
MEF
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