bwh1969
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Posted: April 22 2006,15:09 |
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This works with cards that are recognized by DSL but you need to connect to an unknown network. These instructions are modified from a post - thanks to username dosdragon on the knoppix.net forum.
I made this and printed it out put the page with my laptop. It takes all but a minute to do, but is fairly memory intensive:
1. boot with card in. I have madwifi and wavemon load (downloaded from system apps in My DSL when connected to a wired network, saved the file in directory where I keep My DSL apps) at boot but I don't know how to use either... doesn't seem to matter; I don't even know if you need to do this step, but I had them in loaded from the directory when fiddling around.
2. open panel
3. shut off DHCP if it is on
4. run netcardconfig from panel and select NO for DHCP - but accept all other defaults even if they are wrong or unknown
5. wlanconfig opens after this automatically for me, but if it does not, run this from the panel and type in ANY in the first field, and the defaults for the others except for the one that mentions 'managed" - type that in as MANAGED, finish with rest of deflats.
6. run netcardconfig AGAIN, except this time say YES to DHCP this time. Pauses and if you get some auto message, you should be good here.
7. click on DHCP in the panel. Open your browser.
I use a Proxim RangeLan-DS card. It never worked in Windows buy works with DSL and Knoppix.
I usually just hold the off key down on my laptop for the 5 seconds to completely shut it down after I am done surfing in this manner on public domains. Bad idea perhaps but I don't have to worry about anything I don't want to be saved. I don't want my laptop saving these network settings! There are other means, but this is easier and it never creates an issue for me. It isn't a Windows OS!
Good thing about all of this is that if you are on a public network, it is really next to impossible to get a virus if you have either loaded from a poor mans install or image (I renamed the image DSL23.iso then do: dsl bootfrom=/dev/(partition)/dsl23.iso mydsl=/(different partition)/dsl)
You can't use bootfrom=/dev/ from the same partition or drive where your configuration and dsl apps are stored.
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