Re: [Madwifi-users] Making Progress - but not there yet

[Stephen W. <ste...@cs...>]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 15:43, Alvin Oga wrote:

> add the followning in /etc/rc.d/rc.local  (/etc/init.d/boot.local = suse)
> 
> 	# auto load wireless modules
> 	modprobe ath-pci
> 
> or add the following to /etc/modules.conf
> 	# auto load wireless modules 
> 	alias ath0 ath-pci

Oddly, I don't have either of the above in my system and it still seems
to work OK after I've done 'make install'.  Is iwconfig doing something
magic to load the module?

> 	look for the dchp lines

As I said, I think his main problem is that his ifcfg-ath0 file has
TYPE=Ethernet instead of TYPE=Wireless.

> get a new "system tools" .. one that supports wireless

Humph, Jim's right:  ath0 doesn't show up in the FC1
redhat-config-network dialog.  Bugzilla report, anyone?