nic recognition

[L.I. Surfer]

I have mandrake 8.1 running on a toshiba laptop. I want to make it a wireless access point with a linksys wifi nic (pcmcia). I have wavelan_cs loaded but it says its unused. I wrote in /etc/modules.conf " alias eth1 wavelan_cs" reloaded network and still nothing. I can't set a static ip for it. What should i do???

[mdwatts]

Are ALL the necessary modules loaded that are required for wireless?

Have checked the kernel docs on wavelan? Mine is /usr/src/linux-2.4.18/Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt

Also the wavelan_cs manpage

man wavelan_cs

Sorry as I know very little about wireless networks.

[L.I. Surfer]

thanks but this has nothing to do with how wireless works, this is just how the system recognizes a device, mainly an internet device. I need to get this box up for a access point, or my cards are useless, and i'll be damned if i go M$.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by L.I. Surfer:
<STRONG>thanks but this has nothing to do with how wireless works.</STRONG>

I wasn't referring to how wireless works.

I suggested the wavelan kernel document and the other 2 manpages for you to see if there are any other requirements you need before wavelan_cs will work.

[mdwatts]

Have you tried configuring eth1?

ifconfig eth1 &lt;ip address&gt; &lt;netmask&gt; etc.

and then set the gateway address.

If you have ifcfg-eth1 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts or make a copy of ifcfg-eth0 as ifcfg-eth1 and then edit ifcfg-eth1 and make the necessary addressing changes and then try

ifconfig eth1 up