Atheros a/b/g wireless

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Atheros a/b/g wireless
started by: dallas7

Posted by dallas7 on Nov. 08 2004,20:16

Take whatever remote-exploit.org did to make their live Linux distro (Auditor2 081004-01) work with Atheros a/b/g wireless PC cards and adapters and plug it into DSL. Please!

< http://www.remote-exploit.org/content/mirrors.html >

Thank you.

Posted by Max on Nov. 08 2004,23:01

Create a file called "ifcfg-ath0" and stick it in "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts"

Contents of file should be:
# Atheros Communications, Inc.|AR5212 802.11abg NIC
DEVICE=ath0
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ESSID=any
WIRELESS=yes
MODE=Managed
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Unknown
IPV6INIT=no

Now from command prompt run "pump -i ath0" and you should be up and running.

I have this set to restore automatically when booting off the LiveCD.

I agree it would be nice if this was incorporated into the ISO, but until then works with no problem.

Posted by dallas7 on Nov. 09 2004,03:27

Thank you. While I'd like to see it done to the ISO distro, too, I should have mentioned I run DSL from my laptop's hard drive tho I forget which 0.7 build I'm running.

I don't use DHCP so I think that BOOTPROTO would be a problem. How would I call my static TCP/IP settings (address, mask, gateway, etc.)?

What about netcardconfig? Right now I do wireless with a 11b only WPC11v3. I ran netcard config once and every time I boot up, I'm on my 11b network.

I'd like to do the same with my WPC51AB and have it connect to the 11a network instead.

I tried for a loooooong time to get this DSL install on my 11a WLAN and finally decided to stop torturing myself. Which is why I was so suprised when Auditor2 played so nice with my A/B card.

Can I just copy the stuff from the Auditor2 distro into my DSL directories? And what would I look for?

Thanks again.