<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Wlan Drivers for You Link-Sys Card</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Using make-kpkg to build the new kernel and pcmcia-source modules" HREF="x295.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Checking things in case they don't work" HREF="x348.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x295.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x348.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN328" ></A >7. Wlan Drivers for You Link-Sys Card</H1 ><P >You have downloaded the 11 Wlan project. Go a head and read the instruction, and put it under modules. Follow the instructions when you <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >make config</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > The one key is to make sure you specify the pcmcia-source as under <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > and not choose the default it gives you.</P ><P >Go ahead and <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >make all</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > and <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >make install</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ><P >I suggest you read the documentation that comes with it, but essentially, <EM >if you have a WAP that is connected to your DSL or cable modem then you have a <EM >infrastructure set up.</EM ></EM > I found that it was best to edit the <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >networks.opt</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > under the <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >/etc/pcmcia</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > directory.</P ><P >To make things easier edit the option <P CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT" ># Use DHCP (via /sbin/dhcpcd, /sbin/dhclient, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n]<br> DHCP="y"</P > to what I have, i.e., set it to yes.</P ><P >The documentation talks about setting ESSID but when you edit the <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >wlan-ng.opts</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > you will only see <P CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT" >#=======INFRASTRUCTURE STATION START===================<br> # SSID is all we have for now<br> AuthType="opensystem" # opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP)<br> DesiredSSID="howardnet"</P ></P ><P >From what I can gather,DesiredSSID means ESSID and it works when the WAP and link-sys pcmcia card share the same name.</P ><P >At this point, you should reboot and should have a working link-sys card that gets its address via DHCP.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x295.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x348.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Using make-kpkg to build the new kernel and pcmcia-source modules</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Checking things in case they don't work</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >