Question about hardware...

[Duane Attaway]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Matt Graham wrote:

> Is there a cool command that will help me find what setting my wireless
> card has?  IE...what irq to use, what dev/etc? to use.  I'm reading
> around, and everything says "check the hardware browser."

If it is a supported 802.11 pcmcia card and you are using the
linux-wlan-ng package, the card should show up.  If its a card no one has 
seen yet, you may still be able to manually set it up yourself.

If you have the linux-wlan package installed, this command will show you 
if the card is on a network, what frequency, rx power, and let you do 
things like adjust transmit power, etc...

/usr/sbin/iwconfig

the --help option will give you commands

Not all functions are impliminted in that program, but the wlanctl-ng
command will let you do all that and more if you know the card's parameter
syntaxes.  You can use that for obscure things like changing MAC addresses
or flashing the card with a new program.  The usual wlan scripts in your
/etc directory use this program for the card's configuration.

The README in the linux-wlan tarball is a great starting point and has 
instructions for manually setting up PCI, PLX, or USB cards.  Let me know 
if you have problems setting up your network.  These cards are capable of 
almost anything.

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