[Herts] Wireless Networking with Linux

[Steve Davies]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Cyberesque wrote:

> 
> #! /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
> 

I'm not sure if the text above was a quote, or a question, but in case it 
was a question:

This looks like a Debian Linux system to me. The first question to ask 
would be whether you have put "wlan0" on the "auto" line in 
/etc/network/interfaces

auto lo wlan0

Wireless support in Linux is pretty good. If you are using 802.11b, you 
should IMHO buy a card with an orinoco chipset, I have found that these 
just work. I am in the process of upgrading to 802.11g, and that is 
possible, but already proving harder as drivers are not as mature - I am 
using the SMC Prism based cards for this.

Hope that helps,
Steve