[PLUG] Wireless on Sarge

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Thu Jan 6 15:43:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 20:06 -0800, Hoult, Harlan wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >    Have you tried, 'iwconfig eth0 up'? I need to do this on 
> > my notebook when I use the WiFi card.
> 
> It came back with "unrecognized wireless request up" 
> Entering iwconfig showed the wireless card on eth2. I tried making an entry
> in /etc/network/interface but no go.

If iwconfig has it listed, then you are almost there.  A correct entry
in /etc/network/interfaces should do it.  What didn't work about it?
How are you testing?  What kind of setup are you trying to do?

Please give us more to go on.

Derek Loree




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