Installed madwifi but what now?

[bethel03]

I am a newbie, but I could not find any information on the question/problem.

I installed madwifi with yum through the atrpms repo. It seemed to install successfully, 'loading wifi0' is now displayed in the startup list. When I go to 'network' under 'administration' the NIC (D-link DWL-G520) is shown and is said to be working properly, but I cannot find any settings to enter my SSID or any other wireless information. Is there something else I havent done and need to do? Thank you all for any help.


Chuck

[wneumann]

You need to create a station with the command

/usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta

(read "man wlanconfig" for more information)

After that you can either bring it up by hand using commands like

iwconfig ath0 essid MY_ESSID
ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.2 up
route add default gw 192.168.1.1

(assuming you have an AP with address 192.168.1.1 wiht essid MY_ESSID).

Or start the service NetworkManager and let it do the work.

[nick.stumpos]

click on new, and make a new wireless connection, it shoud wizard you through setting everything up