Topic: Wireless Again

[Kelvin]

Hi Everyone,

I've been looking but cannot find the E-Smith Wireless How-to. Can anyone send me a copy ?

I've compiled drivers for Prism based PCI wireless cards and the drivers seem to load correctly under SME 5.1.2. What I need to know now is how to integrate it as the LAN (internal) NIC (ie. take over eth0) and also to configure SME as the Access Point.

At the moment, SME can only recognise it as wlan0 and I'm not sure if you can just create a symbolic link to call it eth0 (or even where to place such a link). I've read that Gordon Rowell and others have had some success on this and hope that someone could write a brief how-to on integrating it into SME.

TIA !

Kelvin

[Duncan]

Kelvin wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've been looking but cannot find the E-Smith Wireless
> How-to. Can anyone send me a copy ?

Not sure that there is one. There used to be one for some older cards.
 
> I've compiled drivers for Prism based PCI wireless cards and
> the drivers seem to load correctly under SME 5.1.2. What I
> need to know now is how to integrate it as the LAN (internal)
> NIC (ie. take over eth0) and also to configure SME as the
> Access Point.

As far as i am aware (according to the wlan mailing lists) they stopped naming the interfaces ethx and went with wlanx. Not sure if it can be done easily. It would help with respect to integrating the cards into the SME templating system.

I think it takes a firmware upgrade to the cards to enable them to work as an access point. Even then it doesnt work as a true access point.

I got quite a good deal of information from the wlan mailing lists with respect to the above.

Regards Duncan

[Kelvin]

Hi Duncan,

Hmm... I suppose the need to make it an access point really is secondary anyway as long as the card will work in ad-hoc mode to allow client PCs to connect to SME (and therefore use SME's facilities - file, print & gateway services).

Any idea on the main stumbling block - how to make it appear as one of the network cards of SME (in place of eth0 or eth1 - whichever as we can swap them around anyway).

I know a couple of guys on the SME team have tried them out with Orinoco cards and while the drivers are different, the steps required to get SME to work with them should be about the same. So, how about it guys ? Lend a hand to us lowly newbies, pretty please ?

Kelvin