From: Clint Todish (ctodish_at_crayon.com)
Date: 2002-10-07 06:57:46 UTC
I was unable to make wireless.opts work properly, so I placed all my
wireless configuration stuff in rc.local - which works like a champ and
I only have to reference one file for all changes :
~snip (from /etc/rc.d/rc.local)
# bring up vlans
/usr/bin/vconfig add eth0 1
/usr/bin/vconfig add eth0 3
/sbin/ifup eth0.1
/sbin/ifup eth0.3
# wireless stuffs
/sbin/modprobe hostap_plx
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid "----ESSID HERE----"
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 channel 4
/usr/sbin/prism2_param wlan0 beacon_int 1000
/usr/sbin/prism2_param wlan0 ap_bridge_packets 0
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up
# set up the bridge between vlan 3 and the wireless net
/usr/sbin/brctl addbr wb0
/usr/sbin/brctl addif wb0 eth0.3
/usr/sbin/brctl addif wb0 wlan0
/sbin/ifconfig wb0 10.100.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
# turn on forwarding for iptables/bridging to do its magic echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
my interfaces have ethernet interfaces have IP addresses configured in their /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files, but since I'm using vlans, they don't actually get brought up (ONBOOT=no) at boot time.
-C
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin [mailto:justin12_at_speakeasy.net]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:59 PM
To: hostap_at_lists.ssh.com
Subject: HostAP defaults to ESSID "Test"
Ive installed the hostap driver and have a Redhat 7.3 laptop working as an access point. The pccard is a linksys wpc11 v3, No matter what it says in the ifcfg-wlan0 file or wireless.opts file my card still defaults to its own settings. the essid always shows up as test, which I assume is the default. The access point and firewall on the laptop work and I can surf through it, but the access point always defaults to essid test. Has anyone else experienced this or am I missing something simple?
Thanks
_justin