On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:40:34 -0800 John R Pierce <pierce at 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 -- Bob Hepple <bhepple at promptu.com> ph: 07-5584-5908 Fx: 07-5575-9550