[Herts] Wireless Networking with Linux
Cyberesque
cyberesque at softhome.net
Wed Oct 22 23:50:48 BST 2003
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:44 PM,
Nicolas Pike <herts at lug.org.uk> was rumoured to have said:
> Hi,
>
> I am keen to get a wireless network for home and pub use (!) Now, I
> already have a smoothwall firewall, which works fine so just want to
> find a flexible way of linking in a wireless network. I don't really
> want another DHCP/NAT/Firewall to worry about!!
Not sure if this is something to consider (quoted from another list)
Now - speaking of TCP/IP... I am somewhat familiar with the basics of it,
but the problem I still have with the wlan card is getting it to
automatically make the request to the access point for an IP address.
Currently I just have a script on my desktop that I run manually after
inserting the card. It's very simple:
#! /bin/bash
su -c "pump -i wlan0" - root
I get prompted for the root pw, and assuming I enter it correctly the card
now has an IP address. DHCP always worked before automatically with the
wired eth0 interface, btw. Also note that I have the following line in
/etc/network/interfaces:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
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