On 2010/08/03 02:02 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Rudi Ahlers<Rudi at softdux.com> wrote: > >> I hope someone can help me. I'm trying to setup a D-Link DWA-547 on >> CentOS 5.5 x64 in console only mode, i.e. there's no X installed. The >> Wiki article suggests using NetWork Manager, but since there's no X >> installed on this server, it's not possible. >> >> How do I go about installing this card? >> >> Here's the output of lspci -v: >> >> 01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 >> Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) >> Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Unknown device 3a6b >> > I can only point you in the right direction (sorry!). This is from > memory and from a setup that I've used on Fedora in the past so CentOS > _should_ be similar... > > You have to install wpa_supplicant and the relevant configuration files are: > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wap_supplicant.conf > /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth0 > __________________ > I already have it installed: [root at intranet ~]# rpm -qa | grep wpa wpa_supplicant-0.5.10-9.el5 [root at intranet ~]# ll /etc/wpa_supplicant/ total 4 -rw------- 1 root root 107 Mar 31 06:58 wpa_supplicant.conf [root at intranet ~]# ll /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 391 Mar 31 06:58 /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant But, I got no idea how to configure the card in console-only mode, i.e. without X installed. [root at intranet ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. [root at intranet ~]# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 No such device [root at intranet ~]# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers, SoftDux MD Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Support: http://Billing.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 Fax: 086 609 6128 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100803/d0650742/attachment-0005.html>