On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:40:34 -0800 John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
is there a good howto somewhere on how to manually setup wireless connections without NetworkManager ?
wifi requires a lot of juju to be setup just so.
This works for me (actually on fedora-13, but centos-5 should be similar, maybe even the same) - it assumes you've got the driver installed - mine is ath5k and it comes up with device wlan0 in "ifconfig -a":
of course, edit this for your network:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0:
# Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor DEVICE=wlan0 HWADDR=00:22:b0:70:ac:e3 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=192.168.101.18 USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=no NM_CONTROLLED=no TYPE=Wireless ESSID=Baroona MODE=Managed RATE=auto SEARCH="oz.promptu.com" DOMAIN="oz.promptu.com" GATEWAY=192.168.101.1 DNS1=211.29.132.12 DNS2=198.142.0.51 SECURITYMODE=open NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.101.0 BROADCAST=192.168.101.255 CHANNEL=
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-wlan0: KEY=xxxxxxxxxx
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-wlan0:
# this is the 'old' format: just gets added to "ip route add " 192.168.101.0/24 dev wlan0 default via 192.168.101.1
Then just the usual: ifup wlan0
Cheers
Bob