Finally got around top putting F7 on my lappy & need a radio

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 03 June 2007, David G. Miller wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Not sure where you're setting mode to "client" but that's not a valid
>>
>> >value.  Managed tends to work unless you know what you're doing and you
>> >know why you need one of the other vales.
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >Dave
>>
>> Thanks Dave, I'll play with it some more tomorrow.  The avahi-daemon is
>> killing me too, so I'm going to read up on that puppy too.
>
>Looks like something like system-config-network puts the value in the
>appropriate ifcfg script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts:
>
>[dave at spindle network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1
># Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
>DEVICE=eth1
>ONBOOT=no
>BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>HWADDR=00:90:4b:ac:8f:67
>PEERDNS=yes
>DHCP_HOSTNAME=spindle
>TYPE=Wireless
>USERCTL=yes
>IPV6INIT=no
>ESSID=pr3v3ct
>CHANNEL=11
>MODE=Auto # <== HERE
>RATE=Auto
Both of the above options are an error here, getting me
Set Mode (8B06)
and 
Set Bit Rate (8B20)

and dhcp fails, with the radio then being turned off a few seconds after the 
dhcp timeout.

>Although not documented in the man page, "auto" (as above) appears to
>work.  Setting my wireless to mode = auto just gets me "Managed" when I
>then do an Iwconfig.
>
>Cheers,
>Dave
>
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